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A Privileged Experience

What makes us special? “Being a public university in New York with a majority population of students of color gives CUNY a very, very special mission ...
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Understanding Diversity

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams urged Brooklyn College graduates to explore the world in all its forms. “Go visit a mosque, or synagogue, or Bud...
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On the Selma March

Stephen Sommerstein covered the historic 1965 march for voting rights as a student photographer for the City College newspaper. Fifty years later, his...
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John O’Keefe’s Journey

John O’Keefe (City College, 1963) describes his discovery of the brain’s “internal GPS,” which won him a 2014 Nobel Prize, and discusses his formative...
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Dreams for a Cuban Free Press

Cuban dissident Yoani Sánchez gained international fame for her eloquent and outspoken opinions on Cuba in her blog, Generación Y, translated into 20 ...
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Kofi Annan’s Global Legacy

Kofi Annan, former U.N. Secretary-General, used his post as a “bully pulpit” to draw world attention to issues such as human rights, poverty and child...
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