<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2018/2/celebrating-bredhistory.php" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>02/09/2018</pubDate><title>Celebrating #BredHistory</title><author/><summary/><image><img src="https://kysu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Moneta-Sleet-Jr-featured-image.jpg" alt="Celebrating #BredHistory"/></image><caption/><description>As part of honoring and celebrating #BredHistory during Black History Month, Kentucky State University is looking back at some of its trailblazing alumni. In February 1943, Anna Mac Clarke ’41 received orders to become the Fourth Company, Third Regiment’s Platoon Leader. This title distinguished her as the first African-American WAAC to command an all-white unit. Dr. Benjamin W. Nero ’60 was accepted into the second class in the UK...</description></item>