Portraits of George Washington and photos of the Brooklyn Bridge will be arriving at every New York City public school this summer, courtesy of a new initiative that aims to expose students to great American art. Each school will receive a package contain

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The annual fellowship program established by financial executive Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, has named four scholars as 2008 Alphonse Fletcher, Sr