Sound Bites: Two Black Yale students posthumously honored wshu.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wshu.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In a stirring ceremony, Yale this week honored two Black scholars who studied theology here in the 1800s but couldn’t formally register because of their race.
Yale University Awards Degrees to Two of its First Students : The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education jbhe.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jbhe.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The push to award Pennington his degree 186 years after he studied at Yale has been far from easy, but student groups see the Board of Trustees’ decision as a step in the right direction.