New York Celebrates Longtime Civil Rights Activist With Launch Of University Fellowship Named In Her Honor

New York Celebrates Longtime Civil Rights Activist With Launch Of University Fellowship Named In Her Honor

Essence Magazine:

By Melissa Noel ·Updated February 21, 2024

Special honors are being bestowed on a long-time civil rights activist in New York. 

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the Dr. Hazel Dukes Fellowship and Black Leadership Institute (BLI) at The State University of New York (SUNY).

Dukes, 91, is president of the

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