Celebrating BU’s African American Legacy

Washington events timed to opening of new museum Alumni Celebration Breakfast panelists Cornell William Brooks (STH’87, Hon.’15), NAACP president, Richard L. Taylor (COM’71), former Massachusetts secretary of transportation and BU’s first Rhodes scholar, and Andrea L. Taylor (COM’68), president and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and a trustee of the University. Photo by […]

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NAACP President Delivers Baccalaureate Address

“Let us march on until victory is won,” urged Cornell William Brooks (STH’87, Hon.’15) A Methodist minister as well as president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Cornell William Brooks returned to his alma mater Sunday to deliver the 2015 Baccalaureate address in what he called a homecoming to […]

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NAACP President and CEO to Receive Honorary Doctor of Laws

Civil rights leader Cornell Brooks (STH’87) will deliver Baccalaureate address Cornell William Brooks (STH’87), president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will be awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws at Boston University’s 142nd Commencement. Photo by J. M. Eddins, Jr. It is not an understatement to say that Cornell […]

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