News and Views: Black Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Throughout our nation's history, African Americans have made many significant contributions to literature, music, and the arts. Yet over these many years, blacks have been almost completely marginalized in membership elections to America's honorary organizations. Today, African Americans make up just 2 percent of the membership of the nation's most prestigious society honoring the most creative people in these fields.

In past issues of JBHE, we published studies of the black membership of the National Academy of ...

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