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Adriel Hilton: Higher Education Administrator Reaches, Teaches And Mentors Students
BE Modern Man: Adriel Hilton
Higher education administrator; 37; Dean of Students and Diversity Officer, Seton Hill University, Greensburg, Pa.
Instagram: @aahilton
I currently serve as dean of students and diversity officer at Seton Hill University. I have held similar roles as an education administrator at several other higher educational institutions where I have worked to improve diversity. Perhaps most impactful is the work I have done to promote student success and awareness of the plethora of opportunities available to students to enhance their educational experience. I take pride in the work I have been able to do on several campuses to increase access for students while also improving retention and graduation rates as a college administrator.
As a scholar-practitioner and a critical race theorist, I rely heavily on articles and books that speak to the experiences of minority students at colleges and universities (i.e. Minority Serving Institutions or Predominately White Institutions). In addition, I rely on the advice of mentors and sponsors who push me to be the best that I can be.
WHAT ARE YOU MOST PROUD OF IN LIFE?
I am most proud to be doing the work I am doing as a higher education administrator. As a resilient black male, I am blessed to be in a position to mentor and teach young men, particularly African American males, from my lived experiences. I want to help these students to avoid making the mistakes, personally and professionally, that I have witnessed; therefore, I pour into them my time and heart to show them they can and will achieve against the challenges they face.
HOW HAVE YOU TURNED STRUGGLE INTO SUCCESS?
Being considered a second-class citizen or a third-rate human being, and otherwise looked down upon as a black male in society causes one to build inner strength. I have had to position myself with key supporters in my life. I have turned struggles into successes by seeking their wisdom and advice but also having my wise counselors advising me to not ever give up.
I still hear their voices telling me, “No matter your situation, you are blessed” and also, “No matter what you are going through, this too shall pass.”
WHO WAS YOUR GREATEST MALE ROLE MODEL AND WHAT DID YOU LEARN FROM HIM?
My greatest male role model is Dr. Howard L. Simmons, past executive director and associate director of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Dr. Simmons served as professor and chairperson of the Department of Advanced Studies, Leadership and Policy in the School of Education and Urban Studies at Morgan State University, where I earned my Ph.D. in Higher Education under his tutelage. Prior to joining the faculty at Morgan State University, Dr. Simmons was a tenured member of the faculty in the Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Arizona State University. I learned from Dr. Simmons how to effectively utilize research within my work and also the importance of mentorship. In reference to mentorship, Dr. Simmons was a firm believer in mentorship and passing on his knowledge and legacy to the next generation. He taught me to use my knowledge, skills, and abilities to impact students positively as a higher education administrator.
WHAT’S THE BEST ADVICE YOU’VE EVER RECEIVED?
The best advice I have been given was from Dr. Fred A. Bonner, II, professor and endowed chair in educational leadership and counseling and founding executive director and chief scientist of the Minority Achievement, Creativity and High-Ability (MACH-III) Center at Prairie View A&M University. “Status will come as a result of a job well done,” he said. What I took from this was that if you do good work, accolades follow. Do not go searching for credit or accolades for they will come as a result of the work you have done.
HOW ARE YOU PAYING IT FORWARD TO SUPPORT OTHER BLACK MALES?
As a member of a Black social fraternity, a product of HBCUs and also as a member of several professional associations, I believe it is important to use whatever knowledge, skills, and abilities I have accumulated to achieve some measure of success and then to use that success to mentor young people, particularly African American men. Through my scholarship (books, articles, and op-eds), my goal is to empower students that they can achieve against almost any odds. Also, I assisted in launching a scholarship program at a previous university that allows deserving students to receive aid to assist in their educational pursuits. Therefore, I pay it forward by supporting other black males through mentorship and also through financial support for their educational pursuits.
HOW DO YOU DEFINE MANHOOD?
Manhood is complicated and simple at the same time. It is as difficult to define as love. I define manhood as maturity, persistence, the inner strength to endure, and the self-assurance to be able to laugh at yourself and still cry, empathetically, for others.
WHAT DO YOU LIKE MOST ABOUT BEING A BLACK MAN?
The unique perspective that my lived experience gives me as a black man has profoundly impacted my life. What I like most about being a black man is that we are resilient. I believe that’s what it takes to prevail against the odds, to rise above the challenges that many of us face in life; it helps us to be better. We need to push through our situations and to not [fall prey to] the imposter syndrome. We must be resilient.
BE Modern Man is an online and social media campaign designed to celebrate black men making valuable contributions in every profession, industry, community, and area of endeavor. Each year, we solicit nominations in order to select men of color for inclusion in the 100 Black Enterprise Modern Men of Distinction. Our goal is to recognize men who epitomize the BEMM credo “Extraordinary is our normal” in their day-to-day lives, presenting authentic examples of the typical black man rarely seen in mainstream media. The BE Modern Men of Distinction are celebrated annually at Black Men XCEL (www.blackenterprise.com/blackmenxcel/). Click this link to submit a nomination for BE Modern Man: https://www.blackenterprise.com/nominate/. Follow BE Modern Man on Twitter: @bemodernman and Instagram: @be_modernman.
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Chase Consumer Banking CEO Thasunda Duckett Joins NIKE’s Board of Directors
Thasunda Duckett, CEO of Chase Consumer Banking, a division of JPMorgan Chase, has joined an exclusive club with her recent appointment to NIKE‘s board of directors. As such, she has become the only African American female C-suite executive to serve on the board of the $34.3 billion athletic footwear and apparel producer as well as a future member of the BLACK ENTERPRISE Registry of Corporate Directors, which identifies blacks among the corporate governance ranks of the nation’s largest publicly traded companies.
“Thasunda’s expertise in leading digital and physical transformation in retail banking will be invaluable in helping Nike further deepen consumer relationships,” Mark Parker, NIKE Chairman and CEO said in a released statement. “She is a dynamic and forward-thinking leader, and we are delighted that she has joined the board.”
Serving on its Corporate Responsibility, Sustainability and Governance Committee, Duckett joins three other African American members of NIKE’s board of directors: Registry members Peter B. Henry, Dean Emeritus of New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Finance; John R. Thompson Jr., former head coach of Georgetown University’s basketball team and current board member of the National Association of Basketball Coaches; and John W. Rogers Jr., Chairman, Chief Investment Officer and Co-CEO of Ariel Investments L.L.C. (No. 1 on the BE ASSET MANAGERS List with $11.6 billion in assets under management).
By enlisting her for NIKE’s board of directors, the company gains access to the acumen of a business and financial dynamo dedicated to the development of platforms that promote financial health, wealth building, and economic inclusion. Duckett, 46, has oversight of a banking network with more than $800 billion in deposits and investments, 5,000-plus branches, 18,000 ATMs and 50,000 employees—including a phalanx of financial advisers—to meet the needs of over 23 million households throughout the country.
Prior to her current role, she was CEO of Chase Auto Finance, one of the top providers of auto financing with a portfolio of more than $80 billion in assets and relationships with 75% of U.S. franchised automotive dealers. Under her leadership, the division moved from No. 27 in the JD Power Dealer Financing Satisfaction Survey to the leader in Prime and Non-Prime. She expanded its dealer partnerships and launched Chase Auto Direct, its latest direct-to-consumer business.
One of her major thrusts has been her role as executive sponsor of the institution’s Advancing Black Pathways program to drive prosperity for African Americans while addressing nagging racial and economic barriers to wealth creation. To achieve this end, she has created partnerships with a range of influential companies, organizations, and leaders. “Opportunity is not distributed equally, but we all know that talent is. Being black and really focusing on this initiative, it really rings true,” she told BE earlier this year. “We know that the economic wealth gap facing black Americans is stark. We also know [about] the business gap, in terms of people of color owning businesses at the same rate as whites. That outcome would mean or result in 9 million more jobs and $300 billion in worker income. So Advancing Black Pathways is really focusing on expanding economic opportunity for black Americans.”
Due to her myriad of accomplishments, the graduate of University of Houston and Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business, Duckett has been included on BLACK ENTERPRISE’s 300 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America and Most Powerful Women in Corporate America rosters, respectively.
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Lakeith Stanfield Isn’t Feeling Black Media Outlets
Get out! The unfairness from some media outlets causes some artists to give them the side-eye. According to Blavity, Lakeith Stanfield feels that some black media outlets are “anti-Black.”
In an Instagram post, the actor reveals, “It’s a fact that a lot of these platforms are usually or tend to be feeding grounds for negative reinforcement toward BLACK “nonconformists”. They bolster faux vanity and hold a white supremacists scope over black men and women often highlighting negative attributes and downplaying mind-expanding ones. They serve as bottomless coward consumption pits and digital, audio, or otherwise slave mentatilty museums. @ all you want”
He specifically called out The Shade Room, Lipstick Alley, The Breakfast Club, and WorldStar.
Although some celebrities agreed and liked his post, the words Stanfield wrote, did NOT get a pass from The Breakfast Club’s Charlemagne Tha God. For Stanfield’s post, he earned the illustrious “Donkey of the Day” from Charlemagne. “You can say any and everything about me. I’ve damn near heard it all about myself online. But what you won’t do is ever fix your lips to call one of my platforms, especially The Breakfast Club, anti-Black,” said Charlamagne.
He also said, “I’m not going to sit here and act like we’ve gotten it right all the time, because we haven’t. We’ve made plenty of mistakes on this radio. All that critique is fine. But, Lakeith Stanfield, don’t you ever fix your raggedy-ass mouth to call the author of Black Privilege – because I truly believe it is a privilege to be Black – anti-Black.”
Charlemagne also points out that Stanfield has been accused of not talking to black media on the red carpets and only interacting with white media outlets. Stating that if he chose to call out white media, it would hurt him in Hollywood circles.
But, Charlemagne concludes with, “This came from a place of love. Two takeaways I want to leave you with: One, be the change you want to see in media and stop acting like a damn buffoon in all your interviews. And two, don’t burn those Black bridges just because White folks in Hollywood sent you a boat, because history shows us what happens when White folks put Black folks on a boat.”
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Study shows Blacks in New Jersey are arrested for weed more than whites
Black cannabis users in New Jersey can’t catch a break when it comes to being targeted by law enforcement.
NJ.com reports, that according to the American Civil Liberties Union, Blacks and whites may have similar engagement with adult use or recreational marijuana. However, Black folks continue to be arrested for possession far more frequently than whites in New Jersey. The ACLU announced Friday that they are pushing lawmakers to legalize cannabis before the state legislative session ends in January.
READ MORE: How this Black woman cannabis entrepreneur is breaking down barriers in Michigan
“Legalization is about racial justice,” said Amol Sinha, executive director of the ACLU in New Jersey.
Despite growing public support for the legalized use of recreational marijuana, arrests in New Jersey have increased in recent years, according to data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 2017, the state reportedly had more arrests of Blacks users of the plant, and at higher rates, than almost every other state.
The ACLU’s analysis targeted three counties: Salem, Ocean and Hunterdon, where Blacks were eleven times more likely to be arrested for possessing marijuana. In Salem County, Blacks were six times more likely to be arrested. Even worst is in Ocean, were they are seven times more likely to be targeted, harassed and hauled off to jail.
Back in March, top state lawmakers canceled a planned vote on a bill that would legalize recreational marijuana for adults 21 and older.
READ MORE: Mike Tyson admits to smoking $40K worth of weed at his cannabis ranch every month
“We’ll be back at this,” state Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester, told reporters shortly after the vote was called off. “So anybody who thinks this is dead, they’re wrong.”
“This is an issue that’s not going away,” he added. “The legalization of adult-use marijuana will get passed in the state of New Jersey, one way or another.”
Lawmakers said they haven’t received enough support in the state Senate to pass the bill.
Sweeney admitted he “may have under-estimated the challenge of getting this passed.”
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Black borrowers are struggling to repay student loan debt, here’s why
According to the Federal government, Black college students in cities such as Brooklyn and Chicago are drowning in student loan debt at higher numbers than white borrowers.
Matter fact, according to research economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, student loan debt weighs heavier on Black Americans, and the reason may not be all that surprising.
READ MORE: Morehouse creates fund to help eliminate student loan debt
The fact that Black Americans earn a relatively lower income that other racial groups is part of the problem, as they lack the money and resources to make payments, the Fed researchers said, per CBS News.
The data also noted that “Black college students either graduate or drop out with a higher loan bill than other racial groups,” the outlet writes.
“Borrowing rates are somewhat higher in areas with a majority of Black residents, at 23%, compared with 17% in Hispanic-majority ZIP codes and 14% in white-majority ZIP codes,” the Fed researchers wrote. “These differences are likely explained, in part, by income disparities, as lower-income students are more likely to need student loans to afford tuition.”
Here’s how the Fed data breaks down:
- Students living in predominantly urban or Black areas have an average student loan balance of $37,000 or higher
- Meanwhile, white student’s, on average, have a balance of $34,000
- The data also suggests that 18% of Black borrowers are twice as likely to default on student loans compared to 9% of white borrowers
“Black graduates still earn less at their first post-graduate jobs compared to other races,” said Marcus Garrett, who hosts a podcast on how to eliminate debt. “Typically, African-American households have less median income,” he added. “Therefore, the children of these households would theoretically need to take on more school loan debt.”
And this is one of the main reasons why paying off student loans remains an uphill battle for Black Americans.
“It’s a Catch-22 to try to make additional payments when you’re already struggling to just make minimum payments,” Garrett said. “Yet, the main solution to paying off loan debt — beyond lowering the interest rate — is to make additional payments above the minimum payment whenever possible.”
Several Democratic presidential hopefuls have shared their vision for eliminating student loan debt, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has stated that if elected president she intends to cancel up to $50,000 in debt for over 40 million borrowers. Over the summer, Senator Bernie Sanders announced a bill that would eliminate all student loan debt.
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Dr. Tony Evans becomes the first Black American to publish Study Bible
Renowned Dallas-based pastor Tony Evans has become the first Black American to publish a study bible and commentary.
After celebrating 50 years in public ministry, Evans released the two tomes in partnership with LifeWay, Christianheadlines.com reports. Evans is a celebrated theologian and pastor of Oak Cliff Fellowship, a predominantly Black nondenominational church. He is also the founder of The Urban Alternative.
READ MORE: Black millennials dropping out of church, but say it isn’t because of religion
“What I want to say to African Americans is if you see what’s really in the Bible, you can find yourself there,” he said in an exclusive interview with Religion News Service. “You don’t have to lose yourself to believe in Jesus. In fact, much of who we are is in Jesus.”
The Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship celebrated the release of the study bible and commentary with a gospel-star-studded celebration on Friday. Dubbed “Kingdom Legacy Live,” the event brought out the likes of musicians LeCrae and Kirk Franklin, who Evans is supporting in his boycott of the Dove awards after the gospel singer’s race-related comments were omitted from a recent broadcast of the annual ceremony.
Prior to the Kingdom Legacy Live event, Evans chopped it up with Religion News Service about his new biblical volumes, during which he noted why it was vital for him to highlight the Black presence in scripture.
“Paying attention to context is extremely important if you want to accurately understand what the Bible is saying,” he wrote in the Bible’s opening instruction letter. “If you don’t pay attention to the context, you are in danger of trying to make the Bible say something that it doesn’t actually say.”
Evans added, “In fact, in Numbers 12, God judged Aaron and Miriam for their reaction of Moses’ African wife. So early on, God was dealing with racism and interracial marriage,” he told Christianity Today.
READ MORE: Did a Florida church not hire a pastor because he was Black?
The pastor, who was the first Black American to earn a doctorate in theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, noted that his Study Bible acknowledges the Black experience in the scriptures.
“In the lineage of Jesus are a number of people from the lineage of Ham. The lineage of Ham goes back to African people since he settled in Africa. We deal with the curse of Ham that was used to promote slavery in America and apartheid in South Africa,” he said. “That’s often not pointed out.”
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Kanye West performed two secret concerts for Harris County jail inmates
Two days before Kanye West and his famed Sunday Service are slated to appear at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Texas, the rapper played two secret performances at the Harris County Jail on Friday.
More than 200 male inmates inside the 701 San Jacinto building got to #turnup to Ye’s gospel experience with his 100-member of the choir. The rapper then served up a second hour-long set inside the main Baker Street jail for a smaller group of women inmates, E! News reports.
READ MORE: Kanye West set to appear at Joel Osteen’s megachurch, faces backlash
“This is a mission, not a show,” West reportedly told his jailhouse audience.
Video of the performance has been shared online, which shows several inmates overcome with emotion as the Hip-Hop icon performs hits from his gospel-themed Jesus is King album.
On Sunday, West is taking his Sunday Service to Osteen’s Lakewood megachurch, and a source exclusively tells ET that there will be two Ye-themed services. The first one will be during the morning service. at 11:00 a.m. According the source, the service “will include a conversation between Joel and Kanye about overcoming adversity and his faith journey.” Then at 7:00 p.m., West’s Sunday Service will perform a free event, but attendees are required have an admission E-ticket only available through Ticketmaster, the report states.
READ MORE: Joel Osteen’s church responds to criticism, opens to flood victims
There’s such a demand for tickets that, according to TMZ, scalpers have already copped a bunch of reserve tickets to sell for a quick buck. However, the outlet writes, “We’re told the tickets they have identified as being held by scalpers have been invalidated.”
West’s appearance at Osteen’s church in Houston on Sunday will be the first time that he will have ever spoken publicly about his salvation in front of a large audience. The Lakewood Church boasts about 52,000 people every week, according to the Christian Post, and millions tune in every Sunday to watch Osteen on TV.
It will also be the first time the musician and Osteen meet face-to-face. Yeezy’s wife, Kim Kardashian, is also expected to attend the service, fresh off her visit with death row inmate Rodney Reed.
The reality tv star has been lobbying to set Reed free, and according to TMZ, she met with him Friday in Livingston, TX while her hubby was rocking the jailhouse for inmates in Houston.
READ MORE: Days before Rodney Reed’s execution, new evidence might save his life
West wanted to visit Reed too but only legal visitation was permitted, and since Kardashian is a legal apprentice, she was allowed to chop it up with Reed about his controversial case. The make-up mogul was with the inmate when he received the exciting news that “ the highest court in Texas had issued a stay of execution and remanded the case back to the trial court for further consideration.”
As TheGrio previously reported, 51-year-old Reed had been set for lethal injection Wednesday evening for the 1996 killing of 19-year-old Stacey Stites. Prosecutors say he raped and strangled the teenager as she made her way to work at a supermarket in Bastrop, a rural community about 30 miles southeast of Austin.
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