This is what Maya Angelou had in mind when she wrote about “the dream and the hope of the slave.”

Meet Alexis Sims, Nia-Sarai Perry, Cori’Anna White, Aiyana Ringo, Alyssa Richardson, Sophia Davis and Mariama Diallo — a group of young Black women who personify academic excellence.

These are seven Spelman College graduates — better known as the “Spelman Seven” — who all earned their degrees this year as class valedictorians, each with a perfect 4.0 grade point average.

They are, in the words of one social media admirer, “our ancestors’ wildest dreams.”

Their graduation this year marked the first time in the 144-year history of Spelman, a Historically Black College or University, that seven students shared the honor of being named valedictorian.

“Spelman is like a Black girl Disneyland, where we can........

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