While Shakoor’s main gig is leading the Black Creatives Collective (BCC) as president, he’s also been the Creative and Art Director for Gravity Magazine and an editor and co-producer for UMTV. Add his status as a Hammond scholar, a semester abroad in Brazil and internships with NBCUniversal, NASDAQ and Paramount Pictures. It must be difficult fitting these experiences on a one-page resume.
“Black people are innovating in terms of their sense of self. We are no longer letting society define us,” Sydnae Becton, a fourth-year psychology major, said. “We are expressing ourselves in a beautiful and colorful way for future generations to come.”
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As spring breakers flocked to South Beach, the City of Miami responded with an 8 p.m. curfew. Photo credit: pixabay
While University of Miami canceled spring break this semester because of the pandemic, other universities kept the week-long break in place. With that, another tradition also remained in place – spring break on South Beach.
Some UM students may be envious of the hundreds of students who have flocked to South Beach to get their party on, but many say they worry that the student tourists will make local COVID-19 cases rise.
“We’ve gone through a year of this pandemic; they could have stayed home instead of coming to South Beach to act a fool,” said Asia Chester, a sophomore biochemistry major.