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Here Comes Another One! New York Teen Kwasi Enin Accepted to All 8 Ivy League...
Three days ago, Good Black News shared an article about Washington D.C. wunderkind Avery Coffey, who was accepted to five Ivy League colleges. Today, 17-year-old New Yorker, violist and aspiring...
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Harvard Accepts Record Percentage of Black Students to Class of 2018
College admissions letters are out, and for the Class of 2018, Harvard University has accepted a record-high percentage of black students. According to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, of...
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Justus Uwayesu, Who Lived in a Rwandan Dump after Being Orphaned by Genocide,...
BOSTON — Nine years old and orphaned by ethnic genocide, he was living in a burned-out car in a Rwandan garbage dump where he scavenged for food and clothes. Daytimes, he was a street beggar. He had...
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“Humans of New York” Facebook Post Helps Middle School Raise $700K for Free...
Middle school students from an underserved community in Brooklyn, New York, will take a free trip to visit Harvard University this summer thanks to a powerful social media post and generous donations...
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Formerly Homeless Veteran Alicia Watkins Now a Student at Harvard University
Alicia Watkins is a retired Air Force staff sergeant who proudly served in Iraq and Afghanistan. She risked her life for the freedom of others, survived the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, and watched her...
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Former Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick Named 2015 Harvard...
Deval L. Patrick, who recently concluded two terms as the 71st governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises of Harvard’s 364th Commencement on...
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Harvard University Acquires Copy of Unfinished Play “The Welcome Table” by...
The Houghton Library at Harvard University has acquired a typed script of an unfinished James Baldwin play “The Welcome Table.” The manuscript is the 3,000 item acquired by the library archives since...
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Two Black Scholars, Dr. Scott V. Edwards and Dr. Jennifer A. Richeson,...
This year the National Academy of Sciences elected 84 new members from the United States. While the academy does not release data on the race or ethnicity of its members, after an analysis of the list...
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Claudine Gay Appointed Dean of Social Science at Harvard University
Claudine Gay, a Harvard professor of government and African and African American Studies, and a distinguished scholar of mass political behavior, has been appointed the Dean of Social Science. Gay, who...
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Toronto Native Tonika Morgan Goes from Homeless to Harvard Graduate School,...
Tonika Morgan has not had an easy life. Now 32, the Toronto woman says she left home at 14, was homeless for four years, and slept in shelters and on park benches. She was kicked out of high school,...
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Talmadge King Jr. to Lead the University of California, San Francisco School...
According to the latest rankings by U.S. News & World Report, the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine ranks third in its listing of the best medical schools in the United...
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Tracy K. Smith Named Director of Princeton University’s Program in Creative...
Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts named Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith as the new director of the University’s Program in Creative Writing. Smith, a Professor of Creative...
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UC Berkeley Professor Namwali Serpell Wins 2015 Caine Prize for African Writers
Namwali Serpell, an associate professor of English at the University of California, is the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize, honoring the best writing by an African author. The award was presented on...
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Archive of African American Women Soldiers’ Letters Donated to Harvard...
Maryline Morris Whitaker is the founder of the Sister Soldier Project, a grassroots organization that provides hair care products to African American women soldiers to help them comply with the...
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Architect Everett L. Fly and Historian Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham to Receive...
Architect and preservationist Everett L. Fly, who in 1977 became the first African American to earn a master of landscape architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), and...
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John Hope Franklin Honored by Duke University for Pioneering Field of...
DURHAM, N.C. — John Hope Franklin, a scholar who helped create the field of African-American history, was instrumental both in documenting America’s long and long-ignored legacy of slavery and racism...
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W.E.B. Du Bois Medal Recipients Honored at Harvard for Contributions to...
Muhammad Ali, former attorney general Eric Holder, Children’s Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman, Ariel Investments president and DreamWorks Animation SKG board chairman Mellody Hobson,...
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Kerry Washington Named Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Woman Of The Year
Actress Kerry Washington has been named Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation’s oldest collegiate theatrical organization. The Scandal star was chosen because...
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Dr. Paula A. Johnson Becomes 1st African-American President of Wellesley College
article by Jeremy Fox via bostonglobe.com Wellesley College announced Thursday it had appointed Dr. Paula A. Johnson, a Harvard Medical School professor and advocate for women’s health, as its...
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Michelle A. Williams to Head Harvard’s School of Public Health, Becomes...
article by Courtney Connley via blackenterprise.com Harvard University announced Friday that Michelle A. Williams will become dean of its School of Public Health, making her the first black person to...
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