(Jewish Group) Students at Xavier college --and they won a national prize for antisemitism education

[Behind the Aegis]

They’re students at a Black, Catholic college — and they won a national prize for antisemitism education

This summer, four students from the only historically Black Catholic university in the United States found themselves at a Shabbat dinner in Israel.

Until recently, Jamya Davis, 19, had never heard of Shabbat. She was raised in a Catholic family in Orlando, and didn’t know many Jewish people growing up.

But Davis spent much of her spring semester at Xavier University of Louisiana working with three of her classmates from the honors program to launch an educational initiative about Black and Jewish relations.

Davis met Anthony Jeanmarie IV, 20, Nehemiah Strawberry, 18, and Aarinii Parms-Green, 18, through Xavier’s honors program director, Shearon Roberts. Roberts thought the group might be a good fit to represent Xavier in Invent2Prevent, a competition funded by the Department of Homeland Security that invites students to create “digital and social tools” to help combat the spread of domestic terrorism.

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