Ruth Simmons talks about how her upbringing and life illustrate determination and the transforming power of education in the Black History month series.

There were several other eye-opening facts in the report, including that the school’s oldest campus building, Connecticut Hall, was constructed with ”the labor ... number of Ivy League ...

Black History Month was recognized nationally in 1976, when President Gerald Ford designated the month as a time for the ...

We’ve lost many of the journalists who would have been best suited to cover labor ... schools in the country. At the New York Times and Washington Post, one in five went to the top 1 percent of ...

"Many students who accept black nationalism," said Archie C. Epps, teaching fellow in Middle Eastern Studies, "do so because of their experience at Ivy League schools. They go to the same classes ...