We Gon’ Learn Today: HBCUs Past & Present with Dr. Jelani Favors

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🗓️ 12 June 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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In this episode, Ekemini and Christina sit down at the table with Dr. Jelani Favors who is the author of “Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism.” They discuss the history of HBCUs, their present impact, and the future of HBCUs. Dr. Jelani M. Favors is an associate professor of history at Clayton State University. He has received major fellowships in support of his research that includes an appointment as a Humanities Writ Large Fellow at Duke University in 2013, and he was an inaugural recipient of the Mellon HBCU Fellowship at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke in 2009. In 2019, Dr. Favors released his first book entitled Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism, which was published by the University of North Carolina Press. Shelter in a Time of Storm was the recipient of the 2020 Stone Book Award presented annually by the Museum of African American History in Boston. It also won the 2020 Lillian Smith Book Award given yearly by the Southern Regional Council and the University of Georgia Libraries and it was one of five finalists for the 2020 Pauli Murray Book Prize presented by the African American Intellectual History Society. Dr. Favors’ research and commentary have appeared in several media outlets, including CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Conversation. He earned his Ph.D. in History and his M.A. in African American Studies from The Ohio State University. He is a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history with honors. Dr. Favors is a native of Winston Salem, NC and he currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us! Truth’s Table Discount on the Dwell Bible App: To get started with Dwell, go to [dwellapp.io/truthstable] to get 10% off a yearly subscription, or 33% off Dwell for life. 33% off means you save $50, so make sure to visit [dwellapp.io/truthstable] and commit to scripture for the rest of this year—or for life. Black Women, join Truth’s Table Black Women’s Discipleship Group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/truthstablediscipleship Support Truth’s Table: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TruthsTable PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/TruthsTable Merchandise: https://teespring.com/shop/truthstable?pid=46&cid=2742 Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:30.9	Hey y'all. Welcome to Truths Table. Midwives of Culture for Grace and Truth. I'm a
0:40.9	Chemony and I'm Christina. This table is built by Black woman and for Black woman. So welcome
0:46.1	to the table. See how you doing, girl. I'm doing. I'm out here. We have we have an exciting
0:53.2	exciting time today. Plains. I'm Ega. I'm Ega Biva. I know. I'm good. You know, I'm good. I'm
1:04.9	just grateful to be in Atlanta to live in. Okay. We got going on for real. I love the day and
1:10.8	that new day new mercies and clearly we need those. No small things. So yeah, no, I am actually
1:17.2	super hyped for who we got at the table because we are still in our week on Learn Today series.
1:23.2	We're going to plan. We're going to learn. I hope you all got your notebooks because you're
1:27.7	going to need to be taking some notes because you're going to learn a whole bunch today because the
1:32.2	topic on the table is HBCU's past and present with Dr. Jolani favors. Hey Dr. favors. Welcome
1:42.9	to the table. Hello. Thank you so much for having me and glad to pull up a chair at the table
1:49.1	with your sisters. Come on. Come on. We are grateful to have you know, I didn't get to tell you
1:54.6	about this in the pre-show rundown, but you know, we don't have many brothers at the table. Dr.
1:58.7	favors. So so so so happy to have you. We are so happy to have you. You know, in just in case
2:11.3	our sisters at the table don't know who you are. I'm going to tell them a little something about you.
2:17.3	Dr. Jolani and favors is an associate professor of history at Clayton State University. He has
2:23.0	received major fellowships in support of his research that includes an appointment as humanity's
2:28.3	large fellow at Duke University in 2013 and he was an inaugural recipient of the Mellon HBCU
2:34.8	fellowship at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke in 2009. In 2019, Dr. favors
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