Black Voices: Experiences of an African student in America
I am still learning to be okay with being called a person of color. The phrase has a ring to it that doesn’t sit right with me.
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I am still learning to be okay with being called a person of color. The phrase has a ring to it that doesn’t sit right with me.
Jeremy Morris won the IU Board of Trustees election on July 30th, 2021. Morris is the first Black male to be elected into the board of trustees and youngest elected trustee on the board.
One in three adult Americans have a criminal record, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Having a criminal record can present many barriers for individuals in different fields, especially those requiring a professional license.
Dominique Kemp got his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and came to IU for his Ph.D. in Mathematics.
When I first arrived in Bloomington from Zambia last December, I was shocked to see trees without flowers or leaves. In Zambian weather, our trees have leaves all year because it has a tropical and subtropical climate.
IU’s chapter of the American Marketing Association offered a Q&A session with Mark Cheatham, the Creative Artist Agency’s co-head of Hip-Hop/R&B touring group, on Wednesday.
The IU Board of Trustees, composed of nine leaders elected by IU alumni to three-year terms, only has two Black members. Representation in any group is important, and especially one advocating for students.
I was walking to get my COVID-19 mitigation test after physics class in Swain West Hall March 18 around noon, when a black car with more than three white boys pulled up to me and yelled racial slurs.
According to the National Society for Black Engineers, in 2015, less than 1% of all U.S. engineering bachelor’s degrees were awarded to African American women.
The concept of some names being too hard to pronounce is a mental construct. English words Americans speak today were all as abstract as some African names to some Americans, but they still learned to speak English.
Music and dance have long been a crucial part of Black history and for Black people to express what they have experienced.
IU sophomore and accounting major Zach Harper is the first IU student to be selected for a prestigious program for African American men, the Institute for Responsible Citizenship. He said he is excited to join the program as one of twelve sophomore African American male students from all over the country chosen for the two-summer program.
IU senior JeVante Qaiyim said he saw a need as a student of color at IU because he felt he did not have access to the resources he needed to succeed, so came up with Underrepresented Students in Tech, or UnT, in fall 2020.
The Panhellenic Association at IU blocked one of its members on Instagram Jan. 30 after the member direct messaged the account commenting on a post she said she thought displayed white saviorism.
With a COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon, news of its distribution in Bloomington has brought relief to many and concern to some members of marginalized communities. The City of Bloomington will offer both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines through Indiana University Health.
To begin IUs 2021 Black History month celebration, the city of Bloomington and the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center hosted a virtual panel featuring Verdine White of Earth Wind and Fire and Shelly Clark of the Honey Cone.