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By Emily InnesApril 12, 2023 Washington and Lee University senior Kamryn Godsey ’23 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to teach English in Taiwan. At W&L, Godsey is majoring in sociology and anthropology, with a double minor in entrepreneurship and poverty and human capability studies. Godsey is a native of Surry County, […]
By Emily InnesApril 7, 2023 Washington and Lee University senior Avalon Pernell ’23 has been awarded a Fulbright Young Professional Journalist Program Award to Germany. At W&L, Pernell is a Johnson Scholar majoring in journalism and German. She is a native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and graduated from Tuscaloosa Academy. The Young Professional Journalist Program gives […]
By Emily InnesApril 3, 2023 Washington and Lee University senior Tanajia Moye-Green ’23 has been awarded a Fulbright Master of Sciences Degree Award to the United Kingdom. At W&L, Moye-Green is majoring in sociology and anthropology with a minor in data science and poverty and human capability studies. A native of Bartow, Florida, she graduated […]
Young Ghanaian rapper Black Sherif, born Mohammed Ismail Sheriff, has met the Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris. PAY ATTENTION: Enjoy reading our stories? Join YEN.com.gh’s Telegram channel for more! The US Vice President arrived in Ghana on Sunday, March 26, 2023, for a three-day state visit. She was welcomed by Vice President […]
BENJAMIN BANNEKER AND US: Eleven Generations of an American Family, by Rachel Jamison Webster with Edith Lee Harris, Robert Lett, Gwen Marable and Edwin Lee In 1753, Benjamin Banneker, a free Black farmer in Baltimore County, Md., carved a clock almost entirely out of wood. According to most sources, he based his design on a […]
The 2023 Women in Agriculture Luncheon, hosted by the College of Agriculture at Auburn University, will feature distinguished alumna, writer and horticulturalist Abra Lee. The luncheon will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28, at the Auburn Hotel and Conference Center Grand Ballroom. Lee’s remarks are titled “The Invincible Garden Ladies: How […]
Debra Lee has led a career with Black culture, Black women and our communities at the forefront. As the former CEO of BET for nearly 12 years, Lee has created spaces that further position Black men and women to excel and climb industry ladders. In 2010, she launched her invite-only Leading Women Defined (LWD) Summit […]
Throughout his storied career, Sir Christopher Lee established himself as one of Britain’s foremost thespians. From the Fifties through the Seventies, Lee emerged as one of Hollywood’s go-to villains in horror films such as The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957), Horror of Dracula (1958), Dracula: Prince Of Darkness (1966) and The Wicker Man (1973). In his […]
Abra Lee is a horticulturalist who studies U.S. gardening history. She fondly remembers her own relatives’ gardens as holding a special place in horticultural history. Carlos Alejandro/Abra Lee hide caption toggle caption Carlos Alejandro/Abra Lee Abra Lee is a horticulturalist who studies U.S. gardening history. She fondly remembers her own relatives’ gardens as holding a […]
By Erica TurmanFebruary 28, 2023 Posi Oluwakuyide ’24, a Bonner Scholar at Washington and Lee University, will attend the Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute Fellowship at the University of Washington in summer 2023. A native of Union, New Jersey, Oluwakuyide is majoring in economics and double minoring in poverty and human […]