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Undefeated: First Black Girl Duo Wins International Debate Competition at Harvard

For the first time in the history of the Harvard Debate Council, two Black girls from Atlanta have made history as the first Black female duo to win the annual summer debate competition at Harvard University according to an announcement.

If you don’t already know, the students from the Harvard Debate Council’s program are pretty much unstoppable and for the fourth year in a row have left the competition in the dust and taken the top prize.

Each summer, the Harvard Debate Council, one of the oldest campus organizations at Harvard University, hosts a summer residential program for hundreds of gifted youths from over 15 countries around the world who converge on campus for two weeks of intensive study, which culminates in a program-wide debate tournament. This year’s residency and competition were held virtually due to COVID-19 protocols.

Jayla Jackson, 16, is a rising junior at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School. Emani Stanton, 17, is a rising senior at North Atlanta High School. Both girls are current members of the Atlanta-based Harvard Diversity Project, an initiative founded by Harvard’s award-winning debate coach and author Brandon P. Fleming. In 2017, Harvard accepted Fleming’s proposal to establish the Diversity Project as a means to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion on campus.

Read the rest on Black Enterprise: https://www.blackenterprise.com/undefeated-first-black-girl-duo-wins-international-debate-competition-at-harvard/

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The Liberty Bell is one of America’s iconic symbols of Independence. The liberty bell (also known as the State House Bell or Old State House Bell) is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Commissioned on September 1, 1752, by the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly from the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, the Liberty Bell was engraved with lettering referencing the Book of Leviticus (25:10), saying “Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof.”

The idea of the Liberty Bell was born in 1751 in the Pennsylvania Assembly. The legislators ordered a monument to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Charter of Privileges, founder William Penn’s blueprint for the government of his beloved state. Thus, the liberty bell for the steeple of the Pennsylvania State House was built. The bell was used to gather lawmakers for legislative sessions and inform citizens about public meetings and decrees during the early years.

The Whitechapel Bell Foundry in England made the bell upon the order by the assembly and sent it to Pennsylvania. It arrived on September 1, 1752, but it was not hung in the steeple until March 10, 1753. However, when the bell was hung and rung after it arrived in Philadelphia, the clapper struck the side hard and made a crack on it.

The assembly speaker Isaac Norris, the head of the project in Pennsylvania, was disappointed and had the liberty bell returned to England to local foundry workmen John Stow and John Pass. The two workers fixed it twice in a row, sent it back to Pennsylvania, and hanged it on March 29, 1753. Their last names appear on the bell.

The bell received its fatal crack when it was rung on George Washington’s birthday in 1846.