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Sheryl Smikle, PhD

Sheryl Smikle, Ph. D is Assistant Director of Disability Support Services at Vassar College. Her background is in language and diversity. She has worked on Wall Street for over a decade as a Human Resources Compliance Executive. Dr. Smikle can be contacted at [email protected].

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Commentary

Black Deaths in 2005: Is Anybody Watching?

By Sheryl Smikle, PhD

Little has been published about the singular rash of deaths among the cultural, political and social elite of the African American community in 2005. A total of 56 men and women have passed away and with them a generation of unprecedented individual achievement marked by Pulitzer prizes, Presidential Medals of Honor, Grammy awards, Guinness Book…

Little has been published about the singular rash of deaths among the cultural, political and social elite of the African American community in 2005. A total…

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