Black Thriving in America 2024

This groundbreaking report dives deep into Black life experiences through decades of Gallup research and recent surveys…

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C-SPAN Coverage – The Gallup Organization’s Discussion About Payne Center’s Report

The Gallup Organization held a discussion on a report’s findings on African American life experiences as seen through…

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New Educational and Research Alliance

The New Educational and Research Alliance (newERA) is a groundbreaking collaboration among the Thurgood Marshall…

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Black Thriving in America 2023

Based on nationally representative data from a survey of over 10,000 U.S. adults, which assessed Black life experiences…

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Dr. Delayne Johnson

Employers across the country increasingly recognize the necessity of recruiting...

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Dr. Terra Bowen-Reid

In a recently-published book chapter titled “Living While Black: The Psychophysiological Health Implications of…

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Fighting For Equal Funding

At the Inaugural Convening of the N. Joyce Payne Center for Social Justice on April 28, 2022, leaders and advocates…

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Voting Rights – HBCUs as Centers of Political Power

HBCUs have always played a pivotal role in social justice issues, such as voting rights. In today’s climate, they are…

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Investing in Broadband to End Digital Redlining

During his State of the Union, President Biden reasserted his plans to expand high speed internet to everyone,…

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Unequal Opportunity: Racial Disparities in K-12 Education

Almost seven decades since the pivotal Supreme Court ruling Brown vs. Board of Education (1954), the state of America’s…

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HBCU Districts: Gerrymandering and Efforts to Strip Black Political Power

Every decade the United States conducts a federal census to count and collect important data on its population. Once…

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Public Service Loan Forgiveness and the Care Economy: Expanding Eligibility for Gender and Racial Equity

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) and representatives from key constituencies are currently engaged in negotiated…

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Reforming Income-Driven Repayment to Serve Struggling Borrowers

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) must create a substantively different, better, and more generous income-driven…

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