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During Ophelia Murray’s first day on her summer internship at Nike, she attended the sportswear giant’s North America meeting. “I got to interact with senior leaders, including some from Toronto and New York. I participated in group activities with them as if I worked there and as if I were part of the team.” On day two, Murray told Nike employees about growing up in Philadelphia’s inner city and being raised by a single parent after her father’s passing. “I told them my life has been kind of hard but that I’m a rising senior at Bennett College and I’ve …

Kaylah Stevenson says while growing up in Philadelphia, she never really gave too much thought to traveling. “I didn’t ever imagine leaving Philly until I came to Bennett,” Stevenson said. “But when I went on a summer trip in 2017 with President Dawkins to South Korea and saw the beauty in traveling, that’s when I decided I wanted to travel more and one day work abroad.” One day is almost here. On August 22, Stevenson and fellow May graduate Chelsea Tubbs leave for China – Stevenson to Beijing and Tubbs to Shanghai. They’re scheduled to teach for a year through …

During their four years at Bennett College, sisters Cierra and Imani Graham did pretty much everything together: They majored in psychology and minored in sociology; got inducted into the Psi Chi International Honors Society; joined Sisters of Service and were initiated in the Zeta Xi Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. That they did so much together isn’t surprising given Cierra and Imani are twins. “I don’t think my classmates were used to having twins on campus,” Cierra said. “Even as we were approaching graduation they still tried to tell us apart and figure out our differences.” It was …

First lady Barbara Bush kept a full dance card. She had received more than 2,600 invitations to appear at events during her first 18 months as the first lady. So it was amazing, really, the gift she gave to 92 graduates of the Class of 1989 at a tiny African-American women’s college in Greensboro, NC. I was among the 2,500 who sat on folded chairs in the quadrangle of Bennett College on that crisp afternoon marveling at the fact that the sitting first lady had chosen Bennett as the only college at which she would speak that year. News reports say that Mrs. …

Some of our amazing Belles, faculty and President Phyllis Worthy Dawkins attend the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge in Los Angeles! Take a look at some photos!