Tony Allen, a graduate of William Penn High School, is presently the President of Delaware State University. Allen, a former speechwriter for President Joe Biden, also served as head of the Commander in Chief’s Inaugural Committee. In other positions of leadership, Allen successfully served as the founding president of the Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League and was the co-founder of Public Allies Delaware and a top executive for Bank of America. Allen credits his years at William Penn as preparing him for his stellar career in the public and private sectors.
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Interracial Marriage in the United states
Valentine’s Day is all about love but did you know interracial marriages were once illegal and the 2016 movie “Loving” was based on a true story? During the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, the growing number of interracial marriages (also known as...
WE Celebrate: Delaware’s First Black Attorney
In 1929, Louis L. Redding became the first Black lawyer in Delaware. He was a respected civil rights pioneer for Delaware and America. In 1950, Redding compiled a case against the University of Delaware, which barred Black students. But the university's chancellor,...
We Celebrate: Peter Spencer
(1782–1843) Spencer was an American freedman who in 1813 founded the Union Church of Africans in Wilmington, Delaware. The denomination is now known as the African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church and Connection, or A.U.M.P. Church for short. Born into...