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Howard University Graduating Class of 1900. The photograph was taken outside the Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel. Credit: Public Domain.
Education

Five HBCUs Leading the Charge in Creating Black Excellence

Norman Rich 0

WORD IN BLACK — The 2022 proclamation from President Biden for National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week pointed out their incredible contributions to society: “HBCUs have produced 40 percent of all Black engineers and 50 percent of all Black lawyers in America. Seventy percent of Black doctors in our country attended an HBCU, and 80 percent of Black judges are alumni of these schools.” […]

Entertainment

Actress, teacher, author Dorothy Carter dies in NY

Kermit 0

Dorothy Carter, a former stage actress who starred in the adaptation of the groundbreaking novel “Strange Fruit” on Broadway and later became an educator and a children’s book author, has died after battling bladder cancer. She was 94.

She died Sept. 14 in New York, family friend Mary Zaslofsky said Friday. […]