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The latest edition of the McDonogh Report is now available on the College’s website. The magazine celebrates the contributions of African Americans to the Lafayette community. The current issue features the work of Vanessa Youngs ’07, a budget analyst for the City of New York; Jacquelyn Wilkins ’77, a sustainability program manager for Boston’s Massachusetts Port Authority; Kenya Allen ’02, a lead program analyst for the Social Security Administration; and numerous other alumni. Issues dating back to 2008 are also available in the magazine archive.
The McDonogh Report is named in honor of David Kearny McDonogh 1844, the College’s first African American graduate. After graduating from Lafayette, and in the face of tremendous opposition, McDonogh attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York and become a physician. He served for most of his career as a member of the staff of the New York Hospital and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. Five years after his death in 1893, the McDonogh Memorial Hospital opened its doors as the first New York City hospital admitting both physicians and patients without discrimination by race.