The Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe addressed the 1,900 graduates at the City College of New York's 146th commencement yesterday, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters.

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Maura Chanz Washington, a 2015 graduate of Spelman College, the top-rated historically black institution, returned to campus to commemorate Founders Day, April 11, 1881. It’s one of the most ...

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The Nation must create and preserve a distinct class of honors for true heroes. In 2004, Chinua Achebe rejected the honor of Commander of the Federal Republic for the first time.

Rather than restore the name of Gen. Robert E. Lee, the Confederate commander who defended slavery, the Army found Pvt. Fitz Lee, who was Black and fought in the Spanish-American War.

Rangers didn't always wear tan berets - they used to be black. But Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki announced on Oct. 17, 2001, that the black beret would become standard Army headgear in 2002.

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And I think you can actually see a similar thing with maybe someone like Chinua Achebe, who becomes a kind of symbol of the nation, or Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Nigeria now.

The Black Knight satellite conspiracy theory claims that a mysterious, artificial object is orbiting Earth in near-polar orbit, possibly of alien origin, and has been doing so for more than 13,000 ...