Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:03 a.m.

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BMU honors six black women at new ceremony

Contributing Reporter
Published Monday, March 31, 2008

The Yale Black Men’s Union honored six black women — three of them Yale undergraduates — in the Pierson College dining hall Friday night as part of the first annual “Tribute to Black Women.”

In an effort to acknowledge what the group considers black women’s vital and under-appreciated contributions to society, the BMU presented awards to Naima Coster ’08, Crystal L. Paul-Laughinghouse ’08 and Fummi Showole ’08 as Senior Leaders. In addition, the organization recognized two women — Elizabeth Alexander ’84, professor of American and African-American Studies at Yale, and Kimberly...

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