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Spelman College Celebrates 140 Years of Academic Excellence News provided by Share this article Share this article ATLANTA, April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Spelman College is marking its 140-year anniversary through a series of events designed to celebrate its rich history and legacy. This year's theme,  Undaunted: Founders Day @ Spelman, will allow alumnae and friends of the institution to celebrate the College's long-standing commitment to academic excellence and service to others through a series of virtual events. ATLANTA (April 8, 2021) – Spelman College is marking its 140-year annivers...

World Day of Social Justice was celebrated on 20 February 2021, and this year’s theme was “A Call for Social Justice in the Digital Economy”. “World Day of Social Justice 2021 — who cares?” read the title to an article by Mark Heywood in Maverick Citizen. Indeed, who cares and why should anybody care? Perhaps the question should be put differently: Why should we care about social justice in South Africa? After all, the concept of justice has been discussed throughout different times and locations using primarily political-philosophy lenses, approaches that often do not speak to e...

from the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators | Special to Presbyterian News Service LOUISVILLE — During its 2021 annual event, “Anything but Ordinary Time,” held online last week, the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators honored the following four educators. ENRICH Educator of the Year Jeannie Ford Andrews, church educator at Second Presbyterian Church in Little Rock, Arkansas Jeannie Ford Andrews Marian Wright Edelman has said, “Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”  Thes...

Photo by L. Brian Stauffer Images blog posts The education reform bill HB 2170, passed by both chambers of the Illinois Legislature, includes the creation of a Freedom School Fund. Jon Hale, a professor of educational history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, wrote the 2016 book “The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement” (New York: Columbia University Press). In an interview with News Bureau education editor Sharita Forrest, Hale discussed the roles of Freedom Schools in promoting civil rights and educational equity and the implication...

William Winter, Reform-Minded Mississippi Governor, Dies at 97 In his single term, he fought to improve his state’s education system. He later threw himself into civil rights work. William F. Winter in 2008. After serving as governor of Mississippi, he spent nearly three decades campaigning for racial reconciliation.Credit...Rogelio V. Solis/Associated Press Dec. 22, 2020 William F. Winter, a Mississippi politician who stood athwart the racism of many of his fellow white Democrats during the civil rights era and used his single term as governor to address injustice in the state’s educatio...