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Harvard may have a particularly bad reputation in the Black community, but it also suffers from a national trend of Black students flocking to historically Black colleges like Morehouse and Spelman doubt they will be treated equitably both in and out of the classroom is turning some Black students away from predominantly white institutions like Harvard, according to college counselors interviewed...
After graduating from Spelman College in 1960 and Yale Law School in 1963, Edelman was the first Black woman admitted to the Mississippi...
...look at such high-profile African Americans as Marian Wright Edelman, of the Children's Defense Fund, and Ron Brown, the new Secretary of Commerce, and John H. Johnson, publisher of Ebony Magazine, and Johnnetta Cole, president of Spelman College, and many others who are less well known and not known...
...settled on Richard Riley, former Governor of South Carolina, as Secretary of Education, instead of Johnnetta Cole (or so say the leakers). That indicates the President-elect is shying away from people who might face tough confirmation hearings. Conservatives have tried to link Cole, head of Atlanta's Spelman College, to pro-Palestinian and pro-Cuban groups. Retiring Colorado Senator Timothy Wirth is said to have lost his chance to be Secretary of Energy because confirmation questioners might challenge his associations with savings and loans in his state...
This collection is distinguished by a bold refusal to stay put ideologically; the writers speak to, and frequently against, one another. For example, Deidre Bailey, a student activist at Spelman College, praises KRS-One and Public Enemy as heirs to Malcolm X's legacy, calling them "two strong rap artists who...educate young people about Black history...