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Article: YSB BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPECIAL CELEBRATES HEROES PAST AND THE FOOTPRINTS OF A NEW GENERATION
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- January 15, 1993
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- "The color of the skin is in no way connected with the strength of the mind or intellectual powers." -- Benjamin Banneker, astronomer, inventor and mathematician, 1791.
Two hundred years later, Banneker's words remind us that self- determination transcends the boundaries of color -- from the director's seat where actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner now sits, to the Ivy League halls of America's institutions of higher education.
In the feature, "The Rise of Racism on Campus," it's reported that upward of 800,000 college students of every race will be affected this year by brewing racial tensions and the rise of "ethno- violence" on campus; ...