To Inspire You

If the problem of the twentieth century was, in W. E. B. Du Bois's famous words, the problem of the color line, then the problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of colorblindness, the refusal to acknowledge the causes and consequences of enduring racial stratification

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Today In History

Black History Month

• In 1990 - Nelson Mandela released from prison after 27 years as South African political prisoner
  
• In 2016 - Dr. Paula Johnson, a Harvard Medical School faculty member, is named as the 14th President of Wellesley College, becoming the first African American to hold the position
  
• In 1996 - Penn's Baccalaureate Speaker was the Right Reverend Barbara Clementine Harris, a Philadelphian who was the first woman ever to become a bishop in the Anglican Communion.
  
• In 1976 - Clifford Alexander, Jr. is confirmed as the first African American Secretary of the Army