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The Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color Celebrates Its 10th Year

Ron Walker, executive director of the Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color, says the seed of his organization was planted by a letter he received in 1986 from a former honor student of his—now behind bars for murder at Frackville State Penitentiary in Frackville, Pennsylvania.

Born to Build

When Sundra L. Ryce finished college, she planned to join the family contracting business. But her parents had other plans: They cut her a check and told Ryce to start her own. Over the next 15 years, Ryce and her team would consistently grow that company. By 2011 it would join the ranks of the largest black-owned businesses in the nation.

The Afro-Latino Connection

Cid Wilson had his first ugly run-in with racism as a teenager on a friday afternoon. “One kid threw something at another kid,” Wilson recalls. “The kid actually thought it...

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