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**FILE** Claudine Gay (Lhampt1 via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inEducation

Claudine Gay Named as Harvard University’s First Black President

by Stacy M. Brown December 16, 2022December 16, 2022

Harvard University announced Thursday that Claudine Gay will be its next president, making her the first-ever Black and just the second woman to lead the Ivy League school.

Supreme Court
Posted inNational

Supreme Court Will Hear Challenges to Affirmative Action at Universities

by Stacy M. Brown January 24, 2022January 24, 2022
Princeton University professor Cornel West speaks during a town-hall style debate against Malik Zulu Shabazz at the National Press Club in northwest D.C. on Feb. 21. (Travis Riddick/The Washington Informer)
Posted inLifestyle

Cornel West Blasts Harvard in Resignation Letter: ‘Shadow of Jim Crow’

by WI Guest Author July 13, 2021December 21, 2021
Posted inHealth

New Face Mask Prototype Can Detect COVID Infection in Wearer

by WI Guest Author June 29, 2021December 21, 2021
Posted inBlack Experience

Black Students Assuming Game-Changing Posts at Predominantly White Universities

by WI Guest Author December 14, 2020December 21, 2021
Posted inBlack Experience, Education

Harvard Launches Black Teacher Archives

by Sarafina Wright –Washington Informer Staff Writer July 15, 2020December 21, 2021
RuQuan Brown recently announced Harvard University as the school he will attend in the fall. (Courtesy photo)
Posted inLocal

Two DCPS Graduates Headed to Harvard on Full Scholarships

by WI Guest Author July 1, 2020December 21, 2021
**FILE** Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. of the television show "Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life" speaks during the 2019 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena in Pasadena, California, on Feb. 2, 2019. (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, Stacy M. Brown

New Interactive Website Featuring Henry Louis Gates Tracks Slave Voyages

by WI Guest Author March 5, 2019October 31, 2020
Onesimus and his inoculation account (Photo: Face2FaceAfrica.com)
Posted inBlack History, Stacy M. Brown

A Slave’s African Medical Science Saves the Lives of Bostonians During the 1721 Smallpox Epidemic

by WI Guest Author January 31, 2019October 31, 2020
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Posted inBlack Experience

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Awarded Creativity Laureate Prize

by WI Guest Author April 23, 2018October 31, 2020

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