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The 2017 group of U.S. Rhodes scholars will include 10 African American students out of 32 selected, the most ever in a single Rhodes class.
This class will also include a transgender man and four students from colleges that had never had received the honor before.
The Rhodes Trust on Sunday announced the men and women chosen for post-graduate studies at Oxford University in England, including: the first black woman to lead the Corps of Cadets at West Point; a wrestler at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (better known as M.I.T.) who’s helping develop a prosthetic knee for use in the developing world; and a Portland, Oregon, man who has studied gaps in his hometown’s “sanctuary city” policy protecting immigrants in the country illegally from deportation.
“This year’s selections — independently elected by 16 committees around the country meeting simultaneously — reflects the rich diversity of America,” Elliot F. Gerson, American secretary of the Rhodes Trust, said in a news release announcing the winners Sunday, according to the The Washington Post. “They plan to study a wide range of fields across the social sciences, biological and medical sciences, physical sciences and mathematics, and the humanities.”
The scholarships, worth about $70,000 a year according to the Rhodes Trust, is considered by many to be the most prestigious available to American students and will cover all expenses for two or three years of study starting next October.
The 32 winners were selected from 866 applicants who were endorsed by 299 colleges and universities. Four of the institutions had winners for the first time: Hunter College at the City University of New York; Temple University in Philadelphia; the University of Alaska in Anchorage; and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Here is the list of black Rhodes scholars for 2018, according to the The Rhodes Trust and Associated Press:
Simone Askew’s international-history undergraduate thesis examined ? as a tool for genocide. She is the first black woman to serve as captain of the Corps of Cadets, which is the highest position in West Point’s chain of command.
Camille A. Borders was active in the Ferguson, Mo., protests and founded Washington University Students in Solidarity to address police brutality and racial profiling. Her senior thesis investigated how African-American women emerging from slavery understood and practiced their sexual lives and how slavery affected relationships.
Jasmine Brown will earn her Ph.D. in physiology, anatomy and genetics at Oxford. She fights against implicit bias in laboratories and has done cancer research at the Broad Institute, pulmonary research at John Hopkins, behavioral science at the University of Miami and neuroscience at Washington University, where she is researching protective genes against cognitive defects following West Nile-induced encephalitis.
Tania N. Fabo is a Harvard senior in human development and regenerative biology. Fabo was born in Germany to Cameroonian parents and is a U.S. immigrant. He created the first Black Health Matters conference at Harvard University. She has studied cancer throughout her college career and plans to study oncology at Oxford.
JaVaughn T. “J.T.” Flowers graduated from Yale with a degree in political science and started an organization to make sure low-income students receive an equal education. Flowers played basketball at Yale and started a program that changed the university’s financial aid system.
Hazim Hardeman is Temple University’s first Rhodes scholar. After attending inner-city-Philadelphia high schools, enrolling in a community college and finishing with high honors, Hardeman graduated from Temple magna ? laude. He has studied and written about pedagogy, race and politics, gun control, hip-hop and African-American intellectual history. He works as a Philadelphia substitute teacher.
Chelsea A. Jackson is also a Truman scholar and helped revive Atlanta’s chapter of the NAACP. She is pursuing a master at Emory; her thesis will examine prosecutorial discretion and race. Jackson is also the musical director of AHANA A Capella, meaning that she is smart and she can sing. However, since she is in Atlanta, the correct pronunciation is “saaang.”
Thamara V. Jean completed her senior thesis on the Black Lives Matter movement during her junior year at the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College of the City University of New York. It was subsequently published in the Journal of Politics and Society. She then followed up this research by studying black nationalism at Harvard during the 1960s. During my junior year of college, I accomplished a similarly impressive feat when I ran a Boston during a highly contested game of spades. (I did renege, though.)
Naomi T. Mburu won the 2016 National Society of Black Engineers Regional Conference Award for the best oral presentation and has given 11 research presentations and co-authored two peer-reviewed journal articles. Mburu, a senior at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, plans to earn a D.Phil. in engineering science at Oxford.
Jordan D. Thomas, a senior at Princeton, plans to study evidence-based social intervention and policy evaluation at Oxford. He has already interned at the Office for Civil Rights’ Program Legal Group at the U.S. Department of Education as part of the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative. Thomas was also a Fulbright Summer Institute fellow at the University of Bristol studying the culture, heritage and history of the U.K.
Ironically, the Rhodes scholarship was created in 1902 by the will of Cecil Rhodes, a prominent British philanthropist and mining magnate who has is considered one of the architects of South African apartheid. Despite Rhodes’ personal history of White supremacy and brutal British colonialism, the scholarships which bear his name have earned a legacy as one of the academic world’s most important achievements. Also, prior to Zimbabwe obtaining its independence in April 1980, the African nation was a British colony named “Rhodesia” after Mr. Rhodes.
https://rollingout.com/2017/11/24/record-number-rhodes-scholars-black-students-2017/
This class will also include a transgender man and four students from colleges that had never had received the honor before.
The Rhodes Trust on Sunday announced the men and women chosen for post-graduate studies at Oxford University in England, including: the first black woman to lead the Corps of Cadets at West Point; a wrestler at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (better known as M.I.T.) who’s helping develop a prosthetic knee for use in the developing world; and a Portland, Oregon, man who has studied gaps in his hometown’s “sanctuary city” policy protecting immigrants in the country illegally from deportation.
“This year’s selections — independently elected by 16 committees around the country meeting simultaneously — reflects the rich diversity of America,” Elliot F. Gerson, American secretary of the Rhodes Trust, said in a news release announcing the winners Sunday, according to the The Washington Post. “They plan to study a wide range of fields across the social sciences, biological and medical sciences, physical sciences and mathematics, and the humanities.”
The scholarships, worth about $70,000 a year according to the Rhodes Trust, is considered by many to be the most prestigious available to American students and will cover all expenses for two or three years of study starting next October.
The 32 winners were selected from 866 applicants who were endorsed by 299 colleges and universities. Four of the institutions had winners for the first time: Hunter College at the City University of New York; Temple University in Philadelphia; the University of Alaska in Anchorage; and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Here is the list of black Rhodes scholars for 2018, according to the The Rhodes Trust and Associated Press:
Simone Askew’s international-history undergraduate thesis examined ? as a tool for genocide. She is the first black woman to serve as captain of the Corps of Cadets, which is the highest position in West Point’s chain of command.
Camille A. Borders was active in the Ferguson, Mo., protests and founded Washington University Students in Solidarity to address police brutality and racial profiling. Her senior thesis investigated how African-American women emerging from slavery understood and practiced their sexual lives and how slavery affected relationships.
Jasmine Brown will earn her Ph.D. in physiology, anatomy and genetics at Oxford. She fights against implicit bias in laboratories and has done cancer research at the Broad Institute, pulmonary research at John Hopkins, behavioral science at the University of Miami and neuroscience at Washington University, where she is researching protective genes against cognitive defects following West Nile-induced encephalitis.
Tania N. Fabo is a Harvard senior in human development and regenerative biology. Fabo was born in Germany to Cameroonian parents and is a U.S. immigrant. He created the first Black Health Matters conference at Harvard University. She has studied cancer throughout her college career and plans to study oncology at Oxford.
JaVaughn T. “J.T.” Flowers graduated from Yale with a degree in political science and started an organization to make sure low-income students receive an equal education. Flowers played basketball at Yale and started a program that changed the university’s financial aid system.
Hazim Hardeman is Temple University’s first Rhodes scholar. After attending inner-city-Philadelphia high schools, enrolling in a community college and finishing with high honors, Hardeman graduated from Temple magna ? laude. He has studied and written about pedagogy, race and politics, gun control, hip-hop and African-American intellectual history. He works as a Philadelphia substitute teacher.
Chelsea A. Jackson is also a Truman scholar and helped revive Atlanta’s chapter of the NAACP. She is pursuing a master at Emory; her thesis will examine prosecutorial discretion and race. Jackson is also the musical director of AHANA A Capella, meaning that she is smart and she can sing. However, since she is in Atlanta, the correct pronunciation is “saaang.”
Thamara V. Jean completed her senior thesis on the Black Lives Matter movement during her junior year at the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College of the City University of New York. It was subsequently published in the Journal of Politics and Society. She then followed up this research by studying black nationalism at Harvard during the 1960s. During my junior year of college, I accomplished a similarly impressive feat when I ran a Boston during a highly contested game of spades. (I did renege, though.)
Naomi T. Mburu won the 2016 National Society of Black Engineers Regional Conference Award for the best oral presentation and has given 11 research presentations and co-authored two peer-reviewed journal articles. Mburu, a senior at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, plans to earn a D.Phil. in engineering science at Oxford.
Jordan D. Thomas, a senior at Princeton, plans to study evidence-based social intervention and policy evaluation at Oxford. He has already interned at the Office for Civil Rights’ Program Legal Group at the U.S. Department of Education as part of the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative. Thomas was also a Fulbright Summer Institute fellow at the University of Bristol studying the culture, heritage and history of the U.K.
Ironically, the Rhodes scholarship was created in 1902 by the will of Cecil Rhodes, a prominent British philanthropist and mining magnate who has is considered one of the architects of South African apartheid. Despite Rhodes’ personal history of White supremacy and brutal British colonialism, the scholarships which bear his name have earned a legacy as one of the academic world’s most important achievements. Also, prior to Zimbabwe obtaining its independence in April 1980, the African nation was a British colony named “Rhodesia” after Mr. Rhodes.
https://rollingout.com/2017/11/24/record-number-rhodes-scholars-black-students-2017/
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Black Exellence
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Well done!
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Last homie lookin like Darryl Jenkins
But props to all of them tho -
That’s impossible. 98% of black ppl are struggling
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Camille's thesis sound interesting
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Always great to hear these stories! Black Excellence!
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Congrats brothers and sisters
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Rozetta5tone wrote: »That’s impossible. 98% of black ppl are struggling
Funny. But how many of these people you think will say racism only affected Black people 50 years ago ?
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Great news
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Beautiful to read
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But on some serious ? the lack of traffic/input on this thread says a lot.
? just went 200+ posts deep into Denzel saying some ? that is common knowledge for any black person truly aware in 2017 but I’ve watched this thread languish. Further proof that nihgas don’t wanna hear about success regarding black ppl. -
Very impressive. Young, Brilliant, Black Scholars.
After a long day of studying, it's great to end my night reading about this. Even better that much of their research is directed towards uplifting and empowering black people, which can very difficult to do while walking the halls of the Ivory Tower of academia...
Black Excellence -
They were taught very well
It all starts at home -
Shizlansky wrote: »They were thought very well
It all starts at home
Yeah, prolly were taught well too. -
I fixed that ? before
Oh. You beat me to it lol
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This is dope
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Lol at.this el debarge lookn ass at the bottom
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Surprised no one has said "smash" on any of the females.
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Ain't all them african Americans as in decendants of slaves. Should they lump in all other black people in the diaspora with us?
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Should they be taking "accountability" for drug dealers, career criminals, and absent fathers?
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If any of them become victims of racism, did it "start at home" ?
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Rozetta5tone wrote: »That’s impossible. 98% of black ppl are struggling
? i said that was a mistake and that the percent isn’t lower than 90%
And your ? misused what i said...90% if black people are doing bad in relation to wealth in American you schmuck......just because your a rhode scholar doesn’t mean you came from wealth and or are wealthy....the one brother went to inner city Philadelphia schools...he was poor....but being a rhode scholar, he’s a ? needle in a huge ass haystack....that one rhode scholar from philly doesn’t represent and or excuse the hundred thousands of brothers who will never make it out of their socioeconomic status in philly but I’ll let y’all parade around for these one in a millions while our situation as a whole get worst and worst...
I know there are more than 10 black people more than capable of being rhode scholars but i am glad for the 10 who made it -
ghostdog56 wrote: »Ain't all them african Americans as in decendants of slaves. Should they lump in all other black people in the diaspora with us?
One chick may be from nigeria naoimi mburu -
jetlifebih wrote: »ghostdog56 wrote: »Ain't all them african Americans as in decendants of slaves. Should they lump in all other black people in the diaspora with us?
One chick may be from nigeria naoimi mburu
I think another one is from Haiti -
Smh @jetlifebih making up garbage stats again. 90% of African-Americans ARE NOT DOING BAD! According to the Census Bureau 27% of African-American live below the poverty line. That number is the highest of all demographics and problematic but it is nowhere near 90% "doing bad". The vast majority of us are holding things down just fine and comfortable. Not a lot of billionaires but that same goes for 99.9% of the world (that's a made up stat for you). I know made up hysteria helps promote the victim agenda but it's offensive.