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Three sophomores who started a YouTube channel that chronicles their life as women of color at the U are completing their second year of promoting diversity and having fun in the process. Using eye-catching graphics and music, Kylea Stamps, Jamie Williams-Smith and Shadae Nicholas have been sharing their college experience on KRV TV, which stands for their middle names Kristen, Renea and Victoria. Their channel documents their college experience while increasing representation of women of color on campus. “We wanted to broadcast our experience on campus because we saw a lack of representation for Black girls and people of color in general,” said Nicholas, a 20-year-old biochemistry and nutrition major from Raleigh, North Carolina. ....
The first publication of its kind, Gravity Magazine celebrates Black creativity at UM Between the racial justice reckoning of last summer and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, news outlets and social media platforms alike were flooded with what seemed like endless graphic videos and images of Black trauma. Julian Crosby, a sophomore motion pictures major from Jacksonville, FL, saw this and recaptured it as an opportunity to provide Black students an outlet. “I wanted to create a space for Black students to express themselves amidst a very chaotic time in our mental and physical well-being,” said Crosby. Crosby’s idea eventually led to the inception of “Gravity Magazine,” the first student publication dedicated to uplifting Black voices at UM. ....