On February 23, 1944, a 15-year-old girl gazed from an attic window at the topmost branches of a tree. The tree had become a sort of friend to her, a reminder of life beyond the small space to which she was confined and one of the few things she could see from the only window that was not blacked out. In her diary that day, she wrote, “I look up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine, appearing like silver, and at the seagulls and other birds as they glide on the wind. As long as this exists…and I may live to see it, this sunshine, these cloudless skies, while this lasts, I cannot be unhappy.” Those words represent the hope that has made their author, Anne Frank, one of the major figures of World War II and a ubiquitous symbol of optimism in the face of unthinkable darkness.
On April 29, 2022, the thirteenth Anne Frank Tree will be planted on the northeast corner of the University of Iowa’s Pentacrest. Its arrival is due to the w
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Black immigrants killed by police are a testament to the impossibility of un-Blackening one s self in America D.K. Nnuro, Guest Columnist © Special to the Press-Citizen D.K. Nnuro
In a 2016 New York Times opinion piece titled “I’m Ghanaian-American. Am I Black?”, Yaa Gyasi, the author of Homegoing and, more recently, Transcendent Kingdom, writes, “Black immigrant parents may tell their children to shrug off their encounters with racism, but what good does that do the child who must leave his house every day and be Black in America?”
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd, this and other questions were part of an overdue racial reckoning that spread through Black immigrant communities across the country. Fed up with the older generation’s longstanding practice of overlooking racial issues, many young Black immigrants or children of immigrants rallied community members to take a stand. In a 34-minute video posted on YouTube, for example, Nig
| October 12, 2015
A handful of Iowa professors, policy makers, and even a former Hawkeye football player will discuss the past 25 years of climate change during an event on Tuesday.
The event is in collaboration with the UI Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research’s (CGRER) 25th anniversary and will feature presentations from CGRER co-founders Greg Carmichael and Jerry Schnoor, U.S congressman Dave Loebsack, Iowa state senator Joe Bolkcom, and former Iowa congressman David Osterberg, as well as former Hawkeye turned solar energy entrepreneur Tim Dwight. The program is divided into three 25-minute sections focusing on different aspects of climate change: science and the public interest, the effect of climate change in Iowa, and the politics of climate change.
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