Michaela Glavin did not feel a sense of belonging in the Black community when she arrived as a freshman at Harvard.
The Black student body was warm and welcoming, but as a multigenerational African American — a descendant of enslaved Africans brought to the U.S. — she said she felt like “a minority within a minority.”
“The descendants of slavery on campus are woefully underrepresented,” said Glavin, now a junior.
Black and Latino students have long been underrepresented on Ivy League campuses as a whole, even when these…
