March 27, 2021 – Prairie View A&M University launched its Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice virtually .
The creation of the center has been a long time coming and is a continuation of the historically black college’s efforts to create a more equitable society, said both the center’s director and the university president.
“We know that when the Texas legislature created Prairie View A&M in 1876 on the old Alta Vista Plantation, we began a new race and justice project that very day,” said Melanye Price, director of the center and an endowed political science professor at Prairie View. “When the first students arrived in 1878, those young men who had themselves been enslaved, they came with a desire to create a new future for themselves and their community. This became a call for justice that was built into the soil, into the trees, into the buildings that we have come to know as Prairie View A&M.”
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