Maj. Gen. Charles C. Rogers: Talent through diversity, equity and inclusion Charles D. Allen January 28 Charles Rogers, who retired from the Army as a major general, is a Medal of Honor recipient. (Army via Wikimedia Commons) The United States military experiences during the First and Second World Wars highlighted the need for quality leadership in the officer ranks. While the American professional officer corps has traditionally been attributed to the training, education, and development of leaders at the United States Military Academy at West Point, that source of commissioned officers could not need the demands of a force at war.
With the recent victory of Rev. Raphael Warnock and Stacey Abrams’ work in facilitating it, the community of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Atlanta has a lot to be proud of.
Alumni of Morehouse College and Spelman College, respectively, Warnock and Abrams’ legacies inspire those who have walked the same hallways they once did.
“At the highest level in any profession, you can find HBCU graduates not just doing well, but thriving and setting the trend, framing the conversation,” said Anré Washington, a Morehouse graduate of 2013.
Washington is a partner for the policy consulting firm Homegrown Strategy Group. He met Warnock as a student, and they worked together on protests and organizing. Since then, Washington has collaborated with him while working on advocacy, policy and voting rights.
The last thirty years of Ugandan politics cannot be explained as something that emerges primarily and ultimately from Museveni as a politician and as a “case”. Internalist characterisations of the drivers of social, political and economic transformation have contributed to a concealing of the inter-linkages of the international matrix of power structures and capital accumulation.
The three pieces of the initiative include a developer academy in Detroit, venture capital funding for Black and brown entrepreneurs and the Propel Center, which they dub “a first-of-its kind global innovation and learning hub for Historical Black Colleges and Universities” located at the Atlanta University Center.