Walter M. Kimbrough

“The board should not interfere in internal university matters… Boards should set high-level direction and ask good questions of the president and senior staff members, but should not try to do the jobs of these individuals.” universitybusiness.com/how-to-perform…

How a Determined Scholar Captured the Breadth of Blackface nytimes.com/2026/03/27/boo…

Culture meets curriculum at Howard University’s new Cardi B-centered course thegrio.com/2026/03/26/cul…

Biden’s Save student-loan plan is dead. Borrowers will have to quickly pivot. More than 7 million people on the Saving on a Valuable Education plan, or Save, will have 90 days to find a new plan or face a potential huge spike in their monthly bill. stocks.apple.com/AqKqVVm2uSMiF7…

The state of HBCUs with LeMoyne-Owen president and a special invite youtu.be/1uGP6LNLkTs?si… via @YouTube

“Job openings have been trending down and are below prepandemic levels even as layoffs have remained low. A result has been a broad hiring stasis among employers that has hurt all new entrants to the labor market” nytimes.com/2026/03/24/bus…

Benedict College is redefining excellence in the HBCU landscape after announcing a staggering 104 percent increase in its four-year graduation rates. hbcugameday.com/2026/03/23/hbc…

Happy Palm Sunday! Spent yesterday at the Black College Expo in DC with the @UNCF K-12 team. Over 2500 students attended. We provided information on scholarship opportunities.

“College is no longer seen strictly as a single four-year commitment. Instead, it has become a process of exploration.” oaklandpostonline.com/57392/features…

The Middle-Class Suburbanites Who Sell Their Blood Plasma to Get By nytimes.com/2026/03/20/bus…

“Forcing faculty to publicly post their syllabuses is a politically motivated demand from the board… the policy is not a legitimate call for transparency. Rather, it is a bid to enable ideological policing of teaching and the surveillance of classrooms.” ajc.com/education/2026…

Afroman Wins in Court. Cops Raid His Home, Find Nothing, Then Lose Big youtu.be/x91h8kC_vFY?si…

This story is just the latest reminder. The Anti-DEI meritocrats define merit as their kind of people. This kind of nepotism & cronyism never gets called out. They don’t want it to be fair, which is what DEI tries to add to the process.

City leaders, business leaders and philanthropists need to fill in the gap. Have a company hire & pay the TSA workers to do their TSA job. Pay them for a job they don’t do so they can do their real job. Just like Congress…

On Friday I attended the BMCR Black College Fund @BCFUMC luncheon. The speaker was interim President Hardee of @BennettCollege