Kamille Whittaker

Oct 18, 2023 | atlantamagazine.com | Kamille Whittaker

Football games serve a different purpose at HBCUs: They’re the bookends for the halftime show. During halftime, no one is going to the concession stands or taking a restroom break. If you did, you’d be missing out on the real reason football games traditionally exist at HBCUs in the first place: the battle of the bands.

Oct 18, 2023 | atlantamagazine.com | Kamille Whittaker

There are a fount of art offerings on the Atlanta University Center’s campuses—and cross-institutional programming and curriculum to glue it all together. For example, the Atlanta University Center Collective for the Study of Art History & Curatorial Studies’ curriculum makes use of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts, Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, and the strong liberal arts programming on all campuses.

Oct 18, 2023 | atlantamagazine.com | Kamille Whittaker

This summer, we gathered Spelman women of different generations to talk about how the school shaped their lives. They talked about sisterhood, scholarship, and how their college days intersected with pivotal moments in Atlanta history, from the civil rights movement to the pandemic. Judge Brenda H. Cole (Class of 1963)Judge Cole had a distinguished legal career in West Virginia and in Atlanta. In Georgia, she served as deputy attorney general before being named a state court judge in 1998.

Jul 11, 2023 | atlantamagazine.com | Kamille Whittaker

May 16, 2023 | atlantamagazine.com | Kamille Whittaker