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Brianna Edey is the current president of the Multicultural Greek Council (MGC) and the University of New Mexico chapter of Zeta Phi Beta sorority. When asked about what makes the “Divine Nine” —a collective of historically Black Greek letter organizations, with eight of the nine active at UNM — unique compared&...
Buyenlarge/Getty Images The Massachusetts Institute of Technology had its first African-American graduate, Robert R. Taylor, in 1892. It was only 25 years later, in 1917, that the university gave its first civil engineering diploma to an African-American. For quite a while throughout history, engineering was almost entirely the domain of white men. Although Caucasian males still dominate the profession in the U.S. (only 5 percent of engineers are African-American, only 13.4 percent are women of any race, according to one 2011 report), it's important to recognize the significant legacies t...
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Jerald Woolfolk invited several students to watch history as Kamala Harris became the first woman and person of color to become vice president.
Rich Egger/file photo During Monday's MLK Observance in Macomb, Illinois NAACP State Conference President Teresa Haley said everyone in the U.S. can enjoy some privilege if racism is dismantled. “And how do we begin to do that? Through conversation, through education, to making sure that we are empowering ourselves with the necessary tools that we all need to be successful in life today,” Haley said via Zoom. She also urged audience members to help dismantle racism by registering to vote and then casting a ballot on Election Day. She said you don’t have a voice if you don’t vote.