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The first Roadmap was sparked by calls from the undergraduate Black Student Union for increased diversity across Johns Hopkins campuses and the recruitment of more faculty of color.
May 7, 2012 · Miller’s role in the university’s history is highlighted in The Indispensable Role of Blacks at Johns Hopkins, an exhibit and website intended to recognize black students, faculty and staff who have contributed to the institution’s rich history through their personal and professional achievements.
Mar 22, 2021 · They may have employed enslaved workers, as they did free and indentured Black laborers (for example the children of Johns the Elder's former slave Phillis Johnson), but by about the time Johns Hopkins was born in 1795, they did not own slaves, with one very important exception we now turn to.
Feb 3, 2021 · Researchers working on an initiative designed to expand understanding of the histories of Johns Hopkins University and Medicine have discovered evidence that the institution’s founder and namesake, Johns Hopkins, held enslaved people in his home during the mid-1800s.
Student researchers, re-combing Johns Hopkins’ archives with new tools, learned that “respectable employment” for the girls—sometimes referred to as orphans, sometimes as inmates—meant working for white families.
Aug 29, 2023 · In 2013, 9 percent of incoming freshmen at Hopkins had “legacy” connections, the university said, and 18 percent identified as Black, Latino, American Indian, Native Alaskan or Native Hawaiian.
The glaring inequities we see today in the city’s health outcomes by race and ethnicity can be traced to structural racism rooted in public and institutional policies that denied Black and brown people access to wealth, education, jobs, homes, and transportation—policies that reflected decision makers' deeply held beliefs in white supremacy.
