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BP Names Black Woman as CEO of its South African Division

Late last month, British Petroleum (BP) made Priscillah Mabelane the chief executive officer of BP Southern Africa (BPSA). This historic appointment makes Mabelane the first black female chief executive at BPSA and first Black woman in the country’s oil industry to head an multi-national company.

Oberlin College Chooses African American Visionary as Its Next President

Oberlin College Chooses African American Visionary as Its Next President

Ambar, currently president of Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, will be going to Oberlin after successfully leading Cedar Crest for nine years. The school has had three consecutive years of budget surpluses and a 35% growth in net assets. Its endowment has increased by nearly 92%. Enrollment has increased in six of the last seven years.

Open Letter From 30 HBCU Presidents Calls for Symposium on Gun Violence

As people of deep faith and a unique sense of history, we know that senseless violence has never been the way forward in America. We are a society where, despite what many would lead you to believe, that which binds us to each other is far greater than anything that seeks to divide us. In the words of our President, Barack Obama, “We are one people, we are one nation.”

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