Beverly Daniel Tatum made a bit of history this week. Tatum, the president of Spelman College in Atlanta, the oldest black women’s college in the U.S., became the first head of a black institution of higher education to participate in a delegation of university administrators that visits Israel annually. The program, sponsored by Project Interchange, an educational institute of the American Jewish...
Black colleges, white privilege, and 'The Color Purple'
Beverly Tatum, president of the oldest black women’s college in the U.S., discusses black-Jewish relations and Alice Walker on her recent visit to Israel.
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