Then-Georgian Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams speaks to the media on May 24, 2022, in Atlanta. Abrams was appointed Howard University’s first president of Black race and politics.
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Then-Georgian Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams speaks to the media on May 24, 2022, in Atlanta. Abrams was appointed Howard University’s first president of Black race and politics.
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Stacey Abrams, former two-time Georgia gubernatorial candidatewill join the faculty at Howard University in Washington, DC, the school announced Wednesday.
Abrams, the former Democratic Party leader in the Georgia House of Representatives, will serve as Ronald W. Walters’ first President of Black Race and Politics. In his new role, Abrams will lead campus-wide research on political issues affecting black Americans in addition to working with other faculty members on these issues, the university said. in a statement. New information posted.
She will also lead the Ronald W. Walters Speaker Series – which will bring speakers to the historic Black college on a variety of topics.
The 49-year-old beauty will start a multi-year appointment starting this September.
“We are at the inflection point of American and international democracy, and I look forward to engaging the extraordinary students of Howard University in a conversation about where they can influence, shape, and lead. guide the key public policy decisions we face,” Abrams said in the press release.
Abrams made headlines nearly five years ago, becoming the first Black woman to be nominated by a major party for governor in the United States. She ran for governor again in 2022, but lost to incumbent Republican Brian Kemp.
Howard Wayne University President AI Frederick emphasized that Abrams’ appointment will not only honor Walters’ legacy but further extend that legacy to Howard students and the community at large.
“Stacey Abrams has proven to be an essential voice and passionate participant in the defense of American democracy – not just for certain populations, but for everyone,” Frederick said. fundamental right to speak out.
Walters, died 2010, was a professor at Howard University in 25 years and is a leading scholar, activist and expert on issues surrounding race and politics. His dedication to activism and politics was influential in organizing one of the country’s first sit-in lunch protests in Kansas in 1958, according to washington articles.
Walters also served as campaign manager and advisor to Father Jesse Jackson on two of his presidential campaign bids.
“His focus on African-American leadership has shaped a lot of how we’ve seen leaders engaged over the past 30 years,” Abrams told The New York Times. Parcel.
The school announced the creation of the presidency in 2020 after his wife, Patricia Turner Walters, donated the university the couple’s personal African-American art collection worth more than 2.5 million dollars to the university. dollars, according to the university.
Abrams’ appointment at Howard is the latest of a number of prominent faculty members the school has recruited over the past few years.
IN 2021Howard announced that New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones along with writer and alumni Ta-Nehisi Coates will join its faculty.
Earlier that year, the university announced that actor and alumnus Phylicia Rashad will be the principal of the fine arts school, named after the late actor Chadwick Boseman, an alumnus of Howard’s.
