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I am humbled today as I reflect on the history and heritage for which I am truly blessed, the history and heritage that I honor and that led me, in so many ways to this role at Bennett College for Women.
It is important to pay tribute to those who went before, because this installation is about honoring the past, embracing the present, envisioning the future. I wear this medallion in the spirit of the sankofa bird, the Akan symbol that means, “We must go back and reclaim our past so we can move forward; so we can understand how and why we came to be who we are today.”
My own grandmother, Rose Elizabeth Nelson, who graduated from Tuskegee and who instilled a love of education into the lives of her children and grandchildren. Dr. Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander, the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in economics in this nation. Dr. Phyllis Ann Wallace, my mentor, the recipient of the Cross Medal from Yale University, and the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in economics there. Women’s history.
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