34 percent of Harvard students are white. 43 percent of those students are either legacies, children of faculty, kin of donors or a recruited athlete. 75 percent of them would not have gotten in if not for special status (National Bureau of Economic Research).
But when in doubt, blame the Black people!
Quinta Brunson is the third Black person, and second Black woman, to win the writing comedy #Emmy after Larry Wilmore (“The Bernie Mac Show”) and Lena Waithe (“Master of None”). https://t.co/h3GrtHDUA6
Happy Book Lovers Day, everyone! One of my personal favorites is Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. It's one I’ve often found myself turning back to over the years. I love hearing about what other people are reading. What’s a book you would always recommend? #NationalBookLoversDay
"My family went from segregation to the Supreme Court in one generation," Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson says at the White House.
"I am the dream and hope of the slave," she adds, quoting Maya Angelou.