Mimicking minstrels
With his face coated in black paint and his mouth encircled in red lipstick, Omari Daniels harkens back to an often-forgotten and racist practice in American history.
Stories from the February 23, 2009, Print Edition
With his face coated in black paint and his mouth encircled in red lipstick, Omari Daniels harkens back to an often-forgotten and racist practice in American history.
Eighteen-year-old Eric Fortune-Epps wants to go to GW so he "can get a good job and have a better life," but he does not even know if he can make it through his senior year of high school.
Statistics show that black men have the lowest retention rate on campus within the last six years - something the BMI hopes to change.