The Harvard Diversity Project hand-delivered acceptance letters ATLANTA - There’s good news and then there’s great news.
The great news comes with a knock on the door and confetti. That's exactly what 25 Atlanta high school students got after six interviews and months of waiting.
They were accepted into the Harvard Debate Council Diversity Project, which trains young African American students from Atlanta in debate and critical thinking.
After 10 weeks, they compete against hundreds of others at Harvard University. Founder Brandon Fleming saw a lack of diversity in debate competitions at the Ivy League where is also the assistant debate coach. “We had a lot of capable black young people, but educational equity is a real thing," Fleming