Students who have made it to Oxford and Cambridge say more can be done to help others follow in their footsteps
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Mississippi Textbooks Are Keeping Students Ignorant of the Civil Rights Movement | Truthout
Before 2011, Mississippi public school students weren’t required to learn about the Civil Rights Movement at all. The previous social studies standards mentioned the phrase “civil rights” just three times in the 305-page document. It refers to the “Civil Rights Movement” once.
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In honor of civil and women’s rights activist Mary Church Terrell | Hello Giggles
Mary Church Terrell is a figure in African-American and women’s history worth celebrating. Born in Memphis, Tennessee on September 23rd, 1863, Terrell would go on to be one of the first African American women to attend Oberlin College.
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When Affirmative Action Isn’t Enough | The New York Times
Because race-based discrepancies in academic achievement emerge in early childhood, “college is way too little, too late to source the pipeline”
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200,000 People Downloaded Her App Within Two Weeks, and Forbes Magazine is Calling Her “The Next Steve Jobs” | Business Women
Even more, Forbes has named her “The Next Steve Jobs”.
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Oldest HBCU Could Close in September | The Washington Informer
After years of heartbreaking financial and enrollment trouble, Cheyney University in Pennsylvania is on the verge of collapse and in danger of losing its accreditation.
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Remembering Frederick Isadore Scott, Johns Hopkins’ First Black Undergraduate | Afro
Frederick Isadore Scott, the first African-American undergraduate to earn a degree from Johns Hopkins University, died July 15 at Johns Hopkins Hospital following complications from an infection. He was 89.
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Harvard’s incoming class is majority minority | New York Post
Minorities make up the majority of Harvard’s Class of 2021 — for the first time in the school’s 380-year history, according to reports.
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What Parents Can Do to Nurture Good Writers | The New York Times
Sometimes when kids come to you to share what they’re writing, they’re not coming for feedback. They are coming for affirmation.
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Rapper Common Donates $10K for Supplies to Harlem School of the Arts | Atlanta Black Star
NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar and Grammy winner Common surprised a group of New York students by donating $10,000 to help their teachers buy supplies like calculators and science kits.
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