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George Wright, senior adviser to President Eli Capilouto and interim vice president for institutional diversity at UK, has been honored by Duke University, where he received his doctoral degree in history. Pete Comparoni | UK Photo. DURHAM, N.C. (April 7, 2021) — When George C. Wright arrived at Duke as a history Ph.D. student in August 1974, he felt the kind of anxiety that many new graduate students can relate to. “I was scared to death; I just knew that Duke had made a mistake,” he said. That anxiety abated, however, when he spoke with his director of graduate studies, the noted his...

SHARE LOUISVILLE, Ky. — “Since the escalation of racial tensions is one of the major problems facing our country today, it is most urgent that history books contribute to understanding between races.” In 1971, that line appeared in the introduction to “Kentucky’s Black Heritage,” a book published by the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights (KCHR) to help teachers educate their students on the long tradition and vast contributions of Black Kentuckians. What You Need To Know “Kentucky’s Black Heritage” was published in 1971 The book was an attempt to spread knowledge of Black ...