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Ohio Quadruplets All Earn Entry to Yale, Harvard
On Tuesday we celebrated #BlackGirlMagic after high school senior Ifeoma White-Thrope from New Jersey made a clean sweep in her college applications and was accepted into all eight Ivy League schools and Stanford, for good measure. Well, today, I’m bringing you some #BlackBoyJoy, after a set of Ohio quadruplets were all accepted into Yale and…
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Harvard Confronts Its Ties to Slavery; Ta-Nehisi Coates Calls for Reparations
Harvard University is the latest university to try to make amends with its slavery-tainted past. On Friday the storied university held a conference to explore the relationship between colleges and slavery, where university President Drew Faust said the school must confront its past to move forward. “Harvard was directly complicit in slavery from the college’s…
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Watch: Rihanna’s Humanitarian of the Year Award Acceptance Speech at Harvard
Bad gal RiRi was on hand at Harvard University on Tuesday night to accept her award for Humanitarian of the Year. “I’m incredibly humbled to be acknowledged at this magnitude for something that, in truth, I never wanted thanking for,” Rihanna said during her speech. “We are all human and we all just want a…
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Viola Davis Named Harvard Artist of the Year
Viola Davis is a national treasure. And even before her Oscar win Sunday, Harvard University had named Davis its Artist of the Year. On March 4, Davis will accept the Harvard Foundation’s arts medal during the 32nd annual Cultural Rhythms Festival in Memorial Hall’s Sanders Theatre. “The students and faculty of the Harvard Foundation are…
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Rihanna Named Harvard’s Humanitarian of the Year
Rihanna has joined the likes of Arthur Ashe and James Earl Jones after being named the 2017 Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year. Rihanna will be on Harvard’s campus next Tuesday to accept the Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award. The university made the announcement Wednesday and noted the singer’s charitable contributions, which include a center…
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Malia Obama Seen at Dakota Access Pipeline Protest at Sundance
America’s former first daughter (fight me) is apparently keeping busy now that her dad has stepped down from the presidency. Malia Obama marked her first week as a “normal” person by attending an event supporting the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah,…
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Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree Calls His Alzheimer’s Diagnosis a ‘Blessing’
Charles Ogletree, author, activist and Harvard law professor, who taught both Barack and Michelle Obama, revealed that he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease but that it has been a “blessing.” Ogletree, 63, who said he was diagnosed by a neurologist, shared the news at a bicentennial message at the 50th quadrennial General Conference of the…
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A Summary Of VSB's Very Good But Not Quite As Good As We Want It To Be Yet Year
Happy New Year and shit, everyone! If you’re reading this, you’ve made it to 2016 (congrats!) and you’ve decided, for whatever reason, to spend at least one second of this year reading VSB. So thanks for that. Since you’re here, I might as well let you know that 2015 was, by every measure, the best…