Howard University in the context of "Letitia James"

Kamala Devi Harris (/ˈkɑːmələ ˈdeɪvi/ KAH-mə-lə DAY-vee; born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 49th vice president of the United States from 2021 to 2025 under President Joe Biden. She is the first female, first African American, and first Asian American U.S. vice president, and the highest-ranking female and Asian American official in U.S. history. Harris represented California in the U.S. Senate from 2017 to 2021 and was the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee in the 2024 presidential election.

Born in Oakland, California, Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She began her law career in the office of the district attorney of Alameda County. Harris was recruited to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and later to the office of the city attorney of San Francisco. She was elected district attorney of San Francisco in 2003 and attorney general of California in 2010, and reelected as attorney general in 2014.

Isabel Wilkerson (born 1961) is an American journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). She is the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.

Wilkerson was the editor-in-chief of the Howard University college newspaper, interned at the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post, and became the Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times. She also taught at Emory University, Princeton University, Northwestern University, and Boston University.

Title 20 of the United States Code outlines the role of education in the United States Code.

• 20 U.S.C. ch. 1— Office of Education
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 2—Teaching of Agricultural, Trade, Home Economics, and Industrial Subjects
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 3—Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 4—National Zoological Park
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 5—Government Collections and Institutions for Research, and Material for Educational Institutions
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 6—American Printing House for the Blind
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 6A—Vending Facilities for Blind in Federal Buildings
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 7—Instruction as to Nature and Effect of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 8—Howard University
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 9—National Training School for Boys
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 10—National Training School for Girls
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 11—National Arboretum
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 12—Foreign and Exchange Students
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 13—Financial Assistance to Local Educational Agencies
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 14—School Construction in Areas Affected by Federal Activities
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 15—Studies and Research On Problems in Education
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 16—Public Library Services and Construction
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 17—National Defense Education Program
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 18—Grants for Teaching in the Education of Handicapped Children
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 18A—Early Education Programs for Handicapped Children
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 19—School Construction in Areas Affected by Federal Activities
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 20—Grants For Teaching in the Education by the Deaf
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 20A—National Technical Institute for the Deaf
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 20B—Gallaudet University
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 21—Higher Education Facilities
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 22—National Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 23—Training and Fellowship Programs for Community Development
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 24—Grants for Educational Materials, Facilities and Services, and Strengthening of Educational Agencies
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 25—Pay and Personnel Program for Overseas Teachers
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 25A—Overseas Defense Dependents Education
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 26—Support and Scholarship in Humanities and Arts; Museum Services
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 26A—Indemnity For Exhibitions of Arts and Artifacts
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 27—National Vocational Student Loan Insurance
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 28—Higher Education Resources and Student Assistance
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 29—International Studies and Research
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 30—Basic Education for Adults
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 31—General Provisions Concerning Education
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 32—Vocational Education
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 33—Education of Individuals with Disabilities
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 34—National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 35—Environmental Education
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 36—Emergency School Aid
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 37—Assignment or Transportation Of Students
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 38—Discrimination Based on Sex or Blindness
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 39—Equal Educational Opportunities and Transportation of Students
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 40—Consolidation of Education Programs
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 41—National Reading Improvement Program
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 42—Harry S Truman Memorial Scholarships
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 43—American Folklife Preservation
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 44—Vocational and Technical Education
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 45—Career Education and Career Development
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 46—Career Education Incentive
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 47—Strengthening and Improvement of Elementary and Secondary Schools
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 48—Department of Education
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 49—Asbestos School Hazard Detection and Control
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 50—National Center for the Study of Afro-American History and Culture
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 51—Elementary and Secondary Education Block Grant
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 52—Education for Economic Security
  • Subchapter I - National Science Foundation Science and Engineering Education
  • Subchapter II - Education for Economic Security
  • Subchapter III - Partnerships in Education for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering
  • Subchapter IV - Presidential Awards for Teaching Excellence in Mathematics and Science
  • Subchapter V - Asbestos School Hazard Abatement
  • Subchapter VI - Excellence in Education Program
  • Subchapter VII - Magnet Schools Assistance
  • Subchapter VIII - Equal Access
  • Subchapter IX - Star Schools Program
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 53—Emergency Immigrant Education Assistance
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 54—Leadership in Educational Administration
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 55—Education of the Deaf
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 56—American Indian, Alaska Native, And Native Hawaiian Culture and Art Development
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 57—James Madison Memorial Fellowship Program
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 58—Drug-Free Schools and Communities
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 59—Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 60—Fund for the Improvement and Reform of Schools and Teaching
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 61—Education for Native Hawaiians
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 62—Education and Training for American Competitiveness
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 63—Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 64—Excellence in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering Education
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 65—National Environmental Education
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 66—Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 67—Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 68—National Education Reform
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 69—School-To-Work Opportunities
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 70—Strengthening and Improvement of Elementary and Secondary Schools
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 71—National Education Statistics
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 72—Museum and Library Services
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 73—Adult Education and Literacy
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 74—Troops-To-Teachers Program
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 75—Early Learning Opportunities
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 76—Education Research, Statistics, Evaluation, Information, and Dissemination
• 20 U.S.C. ch. 77—Financial Literacy and Education Improvement

David Norman Dinkins (July 10, 1927 – November 23, 2020) was an American politician, lawyer, and author who served as the 106th mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993.

Dinkins was among the more than 20,000 Montford Point Marines, the first African-American U.S. Marines, from 1945 to 1946. He graduated cum laude from Howard University and received his law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1956. A longtime member of Harlem's Carver Democratic Club, Dinkins began his electoral career by serving in the New York State Assembly in 1966, eventually advancing to Manhattan borough president. He won the 1989 New York City mayoral election, becoming the first African American to hold the office. After losing re-election in 1993, Dinkins joined the faculty of Columbia University while remaining active in municipal politics.

Quiet storm is a radio format and genre of R&B, performed in a smooth, romantic, jazz-influenced style. It was named after the title song on Smokey Robinson's 1975 album A Quiet Storm.

The radio format was pioneered in 1976 by Melvin Lindsey, while he was a student intern at the Washington, D.C. radio station WHUR-FM operated by Howard University. The format eventually became regarded as an identifiable subgenre of R&B. Quiet storm was marketed primarily to upscale mature African-American audiences. It peaked in popularity during the 1980s, but fell out of favor with young listeners in the golden age of hip hop.

John Mercer Langston (December 14, 1829 – November 15, 1897) was an African-American abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, diplomat, and politician. He was the founding dean of the law school at Howard University and helped create the department. He was the first president of what is now Virginia State University, a historically black college. He was elected a U.S. Representative from Virginia and wrote From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol; Or, the First and Only Negro Representative in Congress From the Old Dominion.

Born free in Virginia to a freedwoman of mixed ethnicity and a white English immigrant planter, Langston was elected to the United States Congress in 1888. He was the first Representative of color from Virginia. Joseph Hayne Rainey, the first black congressman in American history, had been elected in 1870 during the Reconstruction era.

Rayford Whittingham Logan (January 7, 1897 – November 4, 1982) was an American historian and Pan-African activist. He was best known for his study of post-Reconstruction America, a period he termed "the nadir of American race relations". In the late 1940s he was the chief advisor to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on international affairs. He was professor emeritus of history at Howard University.

John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 – March 25, 2009) was an American historian who focused on the history of the United States. He is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947 and continually updated. More than three million copies have been sold.

Born in Oklahoma, Franklin attended Fisk University and then Harvard University, receiving his doctorate in 1941. He was a professor at Howard University, and in 1956 was named to head the history department at Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York. Recruited to the University of Chicago in 1964, he eventually led the history department and was appointed to a named chair. He then moved to Duke University in 1983, as an appointee to a named chair in history.