Drew Night Life collaborated with Student Engagement to finish off Black History Month on a positive note with their event titled “A Touch of Soul” on Feb. 28. Students and family members…
Drew’s Student Engagement Diversity Department and Drew NightLife hosted a Black History Month-themed bingo event on Feb. 7. When entering Crawford Hall at the Ehinger Center for this event, participants were given…
In the wake of Black History Month, the French film “Athena” by Romain Gavras uses the representation of marginalized groups to bring a new perspective to the discussion regarding police brutality. Amidst…
In 1968, a group of Drew undergraduates started the long process of bringing diverse educational experiences into the university. These students, gathered under the group Hyera, sought to bring classes on Black…
In a Dec. 12, 1968 edition of The Acorn, a Hyera member was quoted as saying: “For three hundred years black people have been enslaved and will continue to be enslaved…until people…
To kick off Black History Month, the Center for Civic and Student Engagement and Africana Studies sponsored the first Black History Month Flag Raising, which will hopefully become a foreseeable tradition here…
To close out the last week of Black History Month, this article, despite being published in March, will be dedicated to exploring the Black experience at Drew. This article will examine what…
A top humanities scholar visited Drew on Feb. 28, as part of Black History Month, to discuss her interactive web project ‘In The Same Boats,’ which is designed to map the international…
In the fall of 1930, Brothers College, now the Undergraduate College of Liberal Arts, welcomed its first Black student after two years of being open for enrollment. This student was Clarence Harrison,…