A set of quadruplet brothers, who go to high school outside Cincinnati, have been accepted by Harvard and Yale, among other top schools. And because the Wade quads, from Lakota East High School, all wrote about being part of a multiple birth, they may have helped themselves get into the Ivies. https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/849592329728131072 According to the New York […]
A new study from Drexel University says that Black people are 2.8 and 1.7 times more likely to die during encounters with police than White people and Hispanics, respectively.
What may not have been a traditional graduation speech has now captured the heart and souls of many.
Yale University said it would continue to name a residential college after John C. Calhoun, a 19th century slavery defender. University officials decided, however, to stop addressing residential faculty as masters.
Harvard University's president acknowledges the school's complicity in slavery. She will unveil a plaque honoring four slaves who lived and worked on the campus.
Harvard agreed with a committee's recommendation to replace the law school's shield, which incorporates a slave-owning family's crest. A student movement, strengthened by a racial incident, pressured the University's governing body to make the change.
Harvard appoints first African-American faculty dean. This comes on the heels of a medical school student petition calling demanding diversity.
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Cambridge, Mass. — Educators from around the nation are at Harvard this month learning how to better integrate Black history into their teaching. The program, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College Teachers at the university’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, is dedicated to introducing educators from different disciplines on an […]
Brittany Smith was a week away from graduating from the most prestigious academic institution in the world two years ago. Today she faces accessory to murder and firearms charges and her boyfriend is going to jail for life. Brittany could have done anything she wanted to do with her degree and Harvard connections. But her […]
