Last year, Princeton honored Ms. Hobson with the Woodrow Wilson Award, the university’s highest honor for undergraduate alumni. During her acceptance speech, Ms. Hobson reflected on her experiences as a Black student at Princeton and remarked that receiving the Woodrow Wilson Award as a woman of color “requires some cognitive dissonance,” The Daily Princetonian reported. “Despite the school’s colors, Woodrow Wilson failed to see that orange and black belong together,” she said at the time. Ms. Hobson studied at the school of international relations and public policy, then named after Wilson, she told The New York Times. Hobson College will be established with a donation from Mellody Hobson and the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation, named for Ms. Hobson and her husband, George Lucas, the filmmaker.

Source: International New York Times October 10, 2020 20:37 UTC