University Of California Will Have Its First Black President

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University Of California Will Have Its First Black President

By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman Black Voices The next president of the University of California system will be Dr. Michael Drake, the first Black person in the role in the school system’s 152-year history. The University of California’s board of regents announced Tuesday that the 69-year-old physician and recent head of Ohio State University had been appointed []

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