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Yale University Honors First Known Black Student With Degree, Nearly 200 Years Later

By Melissa Noel ·Updated May 3, 2023

Yale University will honor two Black men who attended the university nearly 200 years ago with posthumous degrees.

Rev. James W.C. Pennington was born enslaved and escaped from Maryland in 1828. He was the first known Black student to

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