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Ory Okolloh: Kenyan Activist & Google’s New Policy Manager for Africa

Posted on 03. Jan, 2011 by Leshell Hatley.

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Ory Okolloh is a lawyer, activist, and blogger who is now headed to Google at its Policy Manager for Africa.

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Kelly Miller: First African-American Mathematics Graduate Student and Influential Founder of Howard’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center

Posted on 21. Jun, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.

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In 1887, Kelly Miller became the first African-American Mathematics Graduate Student. He went on to become extremely influential during the debates between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois and planted the seed for what is now called the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University.

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