On Sunday, May 19th, 396 young men wore their caps and gowns and seemed not only optimistic as Robert F. Smith gave their school's 135th commencement address, but also burdened by the debt that financed their education. Smith, currently the richest black man in America, shocked the students with a surprise message. He pledged to pay all debts for Morehouse's entire 2019 graduating class.
It was a graduation ceremony like most others, featuring a grand display of pomp and circumstance. The graduates wore caps and gowns, and proud family members filled the audience. The only unusual aspect of this ceremony was that it took place at the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center in the town of Pacific, Missouri.
Despite the antagonistic general view the world has about the continent, it's safe to say there’s nowhere else like Africa. Today, we take you to Ghana and discuss places you can visit while traveling to the country affectionately tagged as, "the gateway of Africa."
In 1869, when George Lewis Ruffin became the first Black Harvard Law School graduate and later went on to become the first African-America judge in Massachusetts, not many could've imagined the day when the law school would house over 60 students of color.
An announcement by Foreign Affairs Ministry that government intends to employ French as a second language, has unsettled a few quills. Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey says the choice to acquire French as a second language is a noteworthy worry of the Government of Ghana, in accordance with national priorities. She further reiterated that plans by government to incorporate the advancement of the learning of French in fundamental schools and over every other dimension of learning, as a component of a general change of Ghana's educational sector.
