Georgetown University announced its recognition of the Black community in the honoring of the 48th annual Black History Month on Feb. 1. This year, the celebration hinges on student engagement, particularly in celebration of this year’s accomplishments furthered by Black student activists and in the continued push for further advances in inclusion and equity on.
Following a year of racist incidents in University classrooms, BSU demanded administrators reform tenure consideration and bias training in academic departments.
North Carolina’s Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green entreated students not to allow anything to hold their joy hostage during her keynote speech at Elon’s eighth annual Black Solidarity.