“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” —Nelson Mandela
Notable alumni include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, former NYC Mayor David Dinkins, and Pulitzer Prize– and Nobel Prize–winning novelist Toni Morrison, to name a few.
Portrait of Gloria Hixon, zoology instructor at Howard University.
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A meeting of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
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