— Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times Magazine In the history of the United States, black Americans were the only group for whom it was ever illegal to learn to read or write. And so when emancipation finally came, schools and colleges were some of the first institutions that the freed people clamored to build. Black […]
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Report: Warriors’ Stephen Curry Starting Golf Team at Howard University | Bleacher Report
TYLER CONWAY, Bleacher Report Jonathan Devich/Getty Images. Featured Image [dropcap]Stephen[/dropcap] Curry has already taken his love of golf to television. Now he’s doing the same at Howard University. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The Golden State Warriors star will reportedly launch a golf program at Howard during a press conference Monday, per Casey Bannon of The Golfer’s Journal. […]
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How this Texas college gives every single student help with trauma, mental health| The Dallas Morning News
Eva Marie Ayala, The Dallas Morning News Shaban Athuman/Staff Photographer. Featured Image [dropcap]Paul[/dropcap] Quinn College prides itself as a school that aggressively recruits the kids often ignored by big-name universities: [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Students who grew up in tough Chicago neighborhoods where it is common to lose a classmate to gang violence. Children from Los Angeles […]
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Painting of College’s First African-American Graduate
A portrait of Richard Theodore Greener, the first African-American graduate of Harvard, has been unveiled and added to the Harvard Foundation’s portraiture collection.
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