The Natural Hair DeCal, created to encourage Black students to embrace their natural hair, entered its third semester this year and has grown into the Natural Hair Collective.
“Do you think Black writers do better at writing Black literature than white ones?” “Yes, of course, because the Black writers can really see what we have contributed to the world.” We like to grow and mature from having our stories told by us to us.
This fall has been marked by continuing legislation on People’s Park, the #Justice4Ivonne movement and protests and counter-protests around the Israel-Hamas war. Students spent their semester concerned with these issues
Founded as a collaboration between the African American Student Development and the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, Black Lives at Cal was founded in fall 2021 to do research and archive the untold and unearthed stories of Black history here in Berkeley.