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| VOL. 23 NO. 21
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May 23 - 29, 2019 |
Models of True Greatness Breaking Barriers to the Future
(Credit Image: © Bo Emerson/Minneapolis Star Tribune via ZUMA Wire)
Bernice Elizabeth Green
A Brooklyn student stands alongside a portrait of Muhammad Ali last week in the "Breaking Barriers: Sports for Change" exhibition at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta. This was one of the stops on the "Rediscovering Lost Values Tour," bringing youth from Brooklyn and other areas to tour Historic sites in the south. Page 3
May 19, 2019 - Atlanta, GA Robert F. Smith, left, laughs with David Thomas, at Morehouse College. Smith, a billionaire technology investor and philanthropist, said he will provide grants to wipe out the student debt of the entire graduating class at Morehouse College - an estimated $40 million. Smith, this year’s commencement speaker, made the announcement Sunday morning while addressing nearly 400 graduating seniors of the allmale historically black college in Atlanta. Aaron Mitchum, a finance major, was looking at $200,000 in student loans as he moves toward his goal of being a lawyer. Many of his family members – not just parents, but aunts, grandparents and in-laws, chipped in to help by co-signing his loans. “They bet on me,” he said. “That’s why it’s such a big blessing.” Mitchum can’t wait to be in the position that Smith is. He thought he’d refinance his student loan, use it to pay for graduate school and have a monthly loan bill of about $1,000. Now he sees an open road. He wants to mentor students and eventually give money to the school. “I want to do what you do,” he said of Smith to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. “You look like me. There’s not many people in that world who look like me.”
Tupac Mosley,17, Wins More than 50 College Scholarships
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upac Mosley, 17, a homeless high school student from Memphis was named valedictorian and received more 50 scholarships amounting to over $3 million than $3 million in college scholarships. ➔➔ Continued on page 11