“It's not exactly the group itself, but being a leader for an entire community of underrepresented, oppressed students. Children, actually. We are children, yet we have to forge ahead for the next generation of Black, Indigenous people of color Exonians and maintain the joy, vibrance and support of our community.”—————————A Letter from the Afro-Latinx Exonian Society “Each Black Exonian knows—consciously or subconsciously, while they roamed the Academy’s red brick buildings or after they graduated to attend institutions of higher learning, whether they went back to their homelands either across ocean waters or down the road from Main Street—Phillips Exeter Academy has a ‘race problem.’”—————————Black Exonians Matter by Kelvin Green II ’17 “As a Black kid from the 1980s New York, I was not surprised by racism, white supremacy or anti-Blackness in and around the town of Exeter. I was, however, empurpled when those triplets of injustice invaded the manicured lawns and red brick buildings of the Academy.”—————————A Reflection by Joshua Bloodworth ’93 “Had you been keeping track, like this New York City girl was, you would have realized that Exeter was far from diverse or multicultural. I conducted an unscientific census and produced the following snapshot: in my senior class of approximately 350 students, there were only two Black males.”—————————All Exonians Can Do More by Claudia Cruz ’96
