Brevard students dive into Black history following year of national protests, racial unrest
Schools hosting special lessons, events
Eric Rogers, Florida Today
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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Brevard Public Schools is launching its annual Black History Month celebrations, and this year they could be more important than ever, News 6 partner Florida Today reports.
The month-long event follows a string of high-profile incidents in 2020 that wrenched the public eye back toward problems of race in America, triggering nationwide protests and the renewed prominence of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Incidents like the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Philando Castille at the hands of police, and viral videos of white people accosting Blacks for innocuous acts like bird-watching, exposed a lingering national disregard for Black people, said William Gary, president of the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Cultural Complex in Mims.
A band of Reddit investors pushed the price of GameStop's stock from $17 to $483. Then the bottom fell out. Greg Filbeck, director of the Black School of Business and the Samuel P. Black III Professor of Finance and Risk Management at Penn State Behrend, said there are lessons to be learned from what happened.
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Six programs earned top-10 rankings, including the online MBA.
New rankings by U.S. News & World Report place Penn State’s online programs – including programs developed and taught by faculty members at Penn State Behrend – among the best in the nation. Six programs earned top-10 rankings, including the online MBA.
U.S. News developed the rankings based on statistical and peer-reputation surveys that measure engagement, faculty credentials and student excellence, among other factors. More than 350 institutions participated.
Penn State has more top-10 programs than any other institution in the rankings, which were released Jan. 26. The following programs are listed:
Online graduate engineering, which is ranked fourth,