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New book is centered on the Black experience in higher ed, and how white women on campus can help

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Two Black Massachusetts professors have highlighted the importance of mentorship in higher education and how white women faculty on college campuses can feel more comfortable mentoring their students of color in the book "Sister Resisters: Mentoring Black Women on Campus."

We meet the book's authors, Janie Victoria Ward, professor emerita in the departments of education and Africana studies at Simmons University and Tracy Robinson-Wood, a professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University.

This segment aired on September 21, 2022.

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