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-6 posts tagged "NAACP"
Isa Sheikh | Monday, October 4, 2021
At the Sept. 20 meeting of the South Bend Community Schools Corporation (SBCSC), the school board discussed a drive-in movie at Washington High School, districtwide professional learning and a dual language immersion grant. Not on the agenda, however — the presence of armed police officers in South Bend schools, also known as school resource officers
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Friday, January 20, 2017
A year ago, Russell Lovell, professor emeritus at Drake Law School, got a call from Benny Anders, the president of the Iowa-Nebraska chapter of the NAACP. Anders joked that now that Lovell was retired, he was now going to be working full time for the NAACP after years of being a volunteer civil rights lawyer.
Alyssa Lyon | Sunday, February 22, 2015
English professor Stuart Greene held an open discussion on the depiction of black love and family on television as part of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) lecture series for Black History Month on Thursday in O’Shaughnessy Hall. The series was co-sponsored by the NAACP, Africana Studies department, the Africana Studies student
Gabriela Malespin | Friday, February 6, 2015
Gabriel Torres, director of undergraduate studies in anthropology, explored Thursday the intersection of race and sexuality and how these shape perceptions of black female sexuality in a lecture titled, “My Anaconda Don’t: Portrayals of Black Female Sexuality, from Saartjie Baartman to Beyonce.” The lecture was the first in a series of talks and discussions hosted
Emily McConville | Wednesday, December 10, 2014
As part of a series of protests this week against police brutality and racial injustice, Notre Dame students staged a “die-in” between O’Shaughnessy and DeBartolo Halls at 12:15 Tuesday, lying down on the sidewalk as students in both buildings changed classes. The die-in was part of the All Lives Matter Week to End Racial Injustice
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, April 10, 2014
We are writing this letter as members of the College Seminar course Minority Experience in American Education in response to Mark Gianfalla’s recent email to College Republicans, dated Tuesday. We come from different racial, religious and political backgrounds and would like to respond to some of Mark’s previous writings. Specifically, we believe the recent email