Discover how Cornelius Golightly led Detroit’s schools and challenged academic spaces as the first Black president of the Detroit Board of Education and a pioneering philosophy professor at Wayne State.
Sinomhlobo Ndlela, the first Black female Cox at Rhodes University, led her rowing team to victory and uses poetry and teaching to uplift others.
New Haven considers an apology for rejecting the nation’s first Black college in 1831, acknowledging its impact on education and civil rights.