''The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education'' is a former

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, now an online

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, for

African American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...

s working in

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in the United States. The journal was established as a quarterly in 1993 by Theodore Cross, a "champion of civil rights" and the journal's longtime

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. The last print issue appeared in 2010. Issues published between 1993 and 2010 are available on

JSTOR JSTOR (; short for ''Journal Storage'') is a digital library founded in 1995 in New York City. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now encompasses books and other primary sources as well as current issues of j ...

. However, the magazine still publishes articles on its website. It reports and comments on statistical information pertaining to black students and faculty in the United States. According to Rhonda Sharpe and William Darity it is "a key resource for publicly consumable statistical reports about the status of blacks in higher education". Its publisher is headquartered in

Bartonsville, Pennsylvania Bartonsville is an unincorporated community in Hamilton, Pocono, Jackson and Stroud townships in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. History Bartonsville was founded in 1831 by Colonel Joseph Benjamin Barton when he opened up a hotelGr ...

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* 1993 establishments in the United States Academic journals published in the United States African Americans and education Online magazines published in the United States Education journals English-language journals Monroe County, Pennsylvania Mass media in Pennsylvania Publications established in 1993 Quarterly journals {{Pennsylvania-stub