EQUITY EXPRESS

June 2025

Director's Desk

Juneteenth And Looking Back To Move Forward

-Meria J. Carstarphen

I was recently reminded of the Ghanaian proverb, “It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.” It is particularly meaningful when thinking about June Pride Month and a holiday like Juneteenth and the slow-coming, hard-won freedoms in civil rights and education.

Numbers That Matter:

A History of Pride Month

and What Polling Says People In the U.S. Believe

-Bill Caritj, Staff Writer

Despite what we often hear in the media, a 2024 Ipsos poll found a majority of people in the U.S. believe that transgendered individuals should be protected from discrimination, but the numbers vary by generation and gender.

Celebrating Social Fatherhood and fSTAR Impact

-Walter Fields, Guest Author

The concepts of "kinship," "social fatherhood," and "Africanity" are missing from contemporary discussions of Black Fathers. That needs to change.

NCEED @ Work

The National Center for the Elimination of Educational Disparities (NCEED) at Morgan State University announces a strategic partnership with the Women of Color Education Collaborative (WOCEC) to advance NCEED’s Teachers and School Leaders Pillar.

UPCOMING EVENTS

June

Morgan Blue-Core Community Gathering

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6:00PM, Baltimore Rowing and Water Resource Center

June

Verizon Innovative Learning STEM Achievers

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9:00AM Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Engineering Building Library

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