Brooklyn woman among record number of Africans-Americans chosen as Rhodes Scholars

A Brooklyn woman with a passion for civil rights is among the latest group of prestigious Rhodes Scholars.

Thamara Jean completed her senior thesis at CUNY’s Hunter College on the Black Lives Matter movement, according to Debbie Raskin, a Hunter spokeswoman.

The 22-year-old child of Haitian immigrants is among 32 men and women from the United States who have been chosen for post-graduate studies at Oxford University in England.

She is also one of 10 African-American scholars, the most ever in a single Rhodes class.

That group includes Simone Askew, the first black woman to lead the Corps of Cadets at West Point.

Also joining the list are a wrestler at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who’s helping to create a prosthetic knee for use in the developing world and a Portland, Ore., man who has studied gaps in his hometown’s “sanctuary city” …

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