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Shelton Amstrod

Shelton Amstrod is a researcher and editor at CBIA Publishing in Detroit. If someone passed along to you make sure you visit the Free Sign Up page. Don't miss anything! You can read any past issue of The Black Commentator in its entirety by going to the Past Issues page.

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Guest Commentary

Guest Commentary

By Shelton Amstrod Guest Commentator

There is not a more coveted degree by the status-starved Black elite than that which is conferred by Harvard University. The Cambridge center of traditional American intellectualism can lay claim to having stamped a goodly number of government and industry leaders with its crimson imprimatur. A negro wearing a Harvard brand has always earned special…

There is not a more coveted degree by the status-starved Black elite than that which is conferred by Harvard University. The Cambridge center of traditional American…

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