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On this week's newscast, host Felicity Guajardo and reporters Emma Peters & Joel Mendez celebrate Black History Month discussing the new B.R.I.D.G.E initiative from Black Student Alliance and the 3rd annual African-American read-in at Cephas House . Tune in on Fridays at 5 p.m. on 89.9 or on the KTSW Soundcloud. We are the other side of news.

In the news today: For our first story of the day focusing on campus news, MSU competes in "The We Give Blood Drive" to address blood shortage. For our second story focusing on environmental news, MSU partners with Bioelements Group to improve sustainable packaging. For our final story of the week focusing on student life, MSU student groups mobilize Black student voters at campus event.

David sits down with Radford University's Black Student Alliance officers, I'yonah Cartwright and Dayshawn Perry, to discuss activism on campus and this generation's views on everything from representation to voting. https://www.patreon.com/raciallyspeaking

Hooswhere Podcast_Tia Nichols_Show NotesWhat does it take to pursue a career in art in today's highly left-brain excited world? Perseverance? Definitely. Passion? No doubt. Networking and community-building? That's not something we know a lot about.In today's conversation, you'll hear about how Tia Nichols, an art-lover since childhood, decided to pursue the path seriously in college and how she landed her first job through her connections. She shares how she sustains herself as an artist by building a brand for herself and working multiple jobs. She also talks about the grant opportunities available for artists and the importance of networking to get recognized in the industry. Tia is currently a gallery manager, chief curator, and multimedia artist. You'll also get insights into the real challenges faced by artists, especially by those from the minority communities. Being involved in the Black Student Alliance at her university showed Tia the challenges of being a minority in a predominantly white institution first-hand. If you're an artist, you'll love learning about the process of curating an art exhibition, starting with brainstorming a theme and then selecting relevant artwork to showcase from Tia. You'll also benefit from learning how to leverage your connections in the art world, valuing your community, and staying focussed and working hard in making a sustainable life out of a career in art. So, do not forget to plug this 30-minute conversation somewhere in your schedule today!Episode Highlights:Building a brand is crucial for artists to get recognized in the industry.Working multiple jobs is an effective way of sustaining oneself as an artist.Grant opportunities are available for artists to fund their art and supplies.Accessibility of art is essential, and everyone should have the ability to see, obtain, and create art.About Tia NicholsTia Nichols is an artist, gallery manager, and curator from Detroit. She completed American Sign Language and Deaf Studies from the University of Virginia. 

In the news today: For our first headline of the day focusing on campus news, MSU to hold vaccine clinic at Breslin Center on Wednesday. For our second headline focusing on culture, Black Student Alliance hosts 50th Annual Black Power Rally, celebrating Black culture and intersectionality. For our final headline of the day focusing on campus news, professor receives scholar grant to continue cancer research for underserved communities. 

Waddup to all my Goonies from The Goon Squad…It's your Captain 1 Eyed Willie and I am here to bring you all Episode 8: Corporate Culture Feat. Desmond “The Plug” Thompson. Inside this episode Desmond pulled up to  The WORLDs iLLEST PODCAST to chop it up about what he does on the corporate side of the business/culture.  Desmond and I kick off the episode taking it back to his early days growing up in military household. Originally from a small town in North Carolina Desmond talks about his parent meeting at college back in the day. His dad on a basketball scholarship messed up early on in college so he left and joined the military, but always kept in touch with his mother who finished college and they ended up married. As they traveled the world, Desmond's and family eventually ended up at Fort Knox, KY.  While where Desmond would play sports and in the band but he  grew a love for music, (on a few mixtapes) fashion, writing, and of course shoes. After graduating high school Desmond had plans on attending Tennessee State University (HBCU) and play in their band but due to not making the SAT deadline Desmond would land at Western Kentucky University. It would be here where Desmond joined Alpha Phi Alpha, won the step show, became a member of Black Student Alliance and Amazing Tones on Joy. He would also release a dope track that exposed his pen game and skills as an emcee. After graduating Desmond would land a job back home working at Finish Line helping customers get fresh for all occasions. This is where he became “The Plug” helping people get in the dopest shoes that came out. Desmond worked his way up, became a store manager, and later moved to West Virginia to help revive a store in the mall. After being successful at that Desmond would later work in the corporate office as a buyer, where he became in charge of placing all the dope accessories in the store. After being with Finish Line for many years Desmond took a new job for Lids where he is connecting the dots and making things happen for fashion we see within the culture today. Tap in, press play, and listen as Desmond “The Plug” Thompson tells us his journey on the corporate side of the business so you can get a clearer vision through this conversation. Support the show

Yanis Varoufakis ist in Deutschland den Zuschauern des eher unterhaltenden Teils des öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehens bekannt ob der Mittelfingeraffäre, bei der er das empörende Körperteil doch tatsächlich uns Deutschen, ja, uns allen Deutschen, gezeigt haben soll, ob unserer Haltung gegenüber den Griechen, ja, allen Griechen, in der Finanzkrise nach 2008. Es war nur ein Böhmermann-Fake dessen Empörungspotential zehn Jahre später niemand mehr nachvollziehen kann, der seitdem einmal in Griechenland Urlaub gemacht hat und auch nur mit einem Griechen geredet hat.Lesern des Politik- oder Wirtschaftsteils deutscher Tageszeitungen ist Yanis Varoufakis wiederum als griechischer Finanzminister für stolze sechs Monate in 2015 bekannt, in denen er es doch tatsächlich wagte, konstruktive Lösungen für die Probleme zu finden, die sein Land durch den Kollaps eines wohl konstruierten Systems von Investment- und Zentralbanken bekam. Dieses System hatte Griechenland schon in den neunziger Jahren als Spekulationsleckerbissen auserkoren und nun, 20 Jahre später, halb verdaut, wieder ausgekotzt; mit allen seinen 11 Millionen Einwohnern. Am Tisch sitzend mit sechsundzwanzig europäischen Finanzministern um Lösungen zu finden, musste Varoufakis feststellen, dass er auf der falschen Party war. Wollte er doch als Grieche seinen Landsleuten den Lebensunterhalt retten, saßen ihm gegenüber jedoch diejenigen, die die Spekulationen derjenigen finanziert hatten, die die ältesten Demokratie der Welt mal ebenso ruinierten, um sich mit den Gewinnen den nächsten Appetit zu holen. Denn der Spekulant ist niemals satt und konnte sich aktuell nicht zwischen dem nächsten Milliarden-Dollar-Leckerlie entscheiden: italienische Pizza oder spanische Paella? Sowas will finanziert sein, vermittelten die Finanzminister in kompliziert verklausulierten Phrasen, da bleibt leider nichts übrig für Gyros in Pita mit Pommes. Ist auch nicht gesund, sagten die Gesundheitsminister aus Deutschland und Frankreich, setzten die Griechen auf Diät und sparten gleich noch das Gesundheitssystem mit ein. Brauchen die dann nicht mehr.Frustriert aber nicht besonders überrascht versuchte Yanis Varoufakis noch die eine oder andere Volte und gab nach ein paar Monaten auf, um sich seitdem der Realität nicht mehr frontal, sondern von der Seite zu nähern. Er ist kein reiner Akademiker mehr, wie vor seinem Ausflug in die Politik, aber er reibt sich auch nicht auf, frustriert und desillusioniert, wie man es nach sechs Monaten in den Mühlen der Brüsseler Bürokratie erwartet hätte. Varoufakis schreibt jetzt Bücher, zunächst durchaus bitter klingende Abrechnungen mit dem System, gegen das er keine Chance hatte, dann jedoch ein wunderbares Erklärwerk, in dem er seiner Tochter den Kapitalismus erläutert und wir alle profitierten davon.Was alle diese Werke besonders macht ist der Autor, dessen Herkunft und akademischer und beruflicher Werdegang von so vielen Wendungen geprägt ist, der so oft die Perspektive wechseln konnte und musste, dass seine Bücher eines nicht sein können: stringente wissenschaftliche Werke von Prolog, These, Antithese und Synthese, Epilog mit Fußzeilen, Anhang und Glossar, die stolz und ungelesen in Bücherschränken stehen. Es sind anregende, Ideen vermittelnde Essays, strotzend von Wissen um Geschichte und Zusammenhänge, geschrieben mit wirklicher Leidenschaft und nur ganz manchmal etwas zu viel Stolz auf die alten Griechen.Varoufakis bezeichnete sich selbst gerne als "erratischen", neuerdings als "libertären Kommunisten". Ihn damit in der Mitte des politischen Spektrums zu verorten wäre jedoch falsch, er ist ein Linker wie aus dem Bilderbuch, allein seine Karriere als Student an der University of Essex in Großbritannien liest sich wie Satire: Varoufakis war Ende der Siebziger nicht nur in den üblichen Unterstützerkommités für den ANC, die Chilenische Opposition, die PLO und gegen den Krieg in Nordirland sondern, wirklich, auch gewählter Sekretär der "Black Student Alliance" der University of Essex. Als Grieche.Als Doktor der Mathematik mit einer Promotion über Spieltheorie hielt er danach an einem halben Dutzend Hochschulen Professuren über Ökonomie und Ökonometrie, sprich, die messbaren Grundlagen dieser Möchtegern-Wissenschaft zwischen Psychologie, Soziologie und kapitalistischer Rechtfertigungstheorie, bis er beschloss ein wenig mehr in der Praxis zu forschen. Unter anderem und am bekanntesten wurde er bei Valve, der Firma hinter der größten Computerspielplattform Steam, angestellt um die Ökonomie von In-Game-Währungen zu untersuchen, also dem, was heute, ein paar Jahre später, der feuchte Traum eines jeden Libertären ist: Die autonome, dezentrale Digitale Währung, auf Deutsch: Bitcoin.Kurz: libertärer Kommunist trifft es ziemlich gut.Wenn man seinen Vater dazu nimmt, welcher zwar immer im kommunistischen Widerstand gegen die rechten griechischen Juntas, von den Neunzehnvierzigern bis Ende der Neunzehnsiebziger war, und der dennoch im Jahr 2020 als Vorstandsvorsitzender des größten griechischen Stahlproduzenten aus dem Berufsleben ausschied, kann man sich vorstellen, wie oft Varoufakis mit seiner Familie, seinen Kommilitonen, Kollegen, Freunden und sich selbst Argumente diskutierte, statt immer wieder die gleichen Dogmen zu postulieren. Auch seiner Bücher Kapitel schwanken, wie seine Ansichten, schon immer angenehm vom Für zum Wider, vom Pro zum Contra - eine Tatsache, die Varoufakis in der Selbstreflektion sein Scheitern als amtsführenden Politiker erklärt haben wird.Das Resultat dieser Erkenntnis liegt seit einem Jahr in den Regalen der Buchhandlungen im Englischen als "Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present" oder im Deutschen als "Ein Anderes Jetzt: Nachrichten aus einer alternativen Gegenwart".Stilistisch macht Yanis einen Varoufakis, lehnt sich zurück, denkt nach und kommt mit einer überraschenden aber einleuchtenden Idee: Statt eines weiteren überlangen Essays mit Pro und Contra, Für und Wider, besinnt er sich auf ein Leben von geführten Gesprächen und bemüht, absolut logisch, den griechischen Urvater des Genres: Platon. Statt dem Leser in Absätzen Ideen und Argumente zu erklären, erschafft sich Varoufakis drei Alter Ego und lässt diese in Dialogen Argumente gegen unsere aktuelle gesellschaftliche Ordnung diskutieren, Alternativen finden und analysieren, hinterfragen und verwerfen und, wichtig für einen, der kein reiner Akademiker mehr ist: deren Verwirklichung planen. Kurz: Varoufakis schreibt uns eine Utopie und lässt seine Alter Egos diese von allen Seiten betrachten, diskutieren, auseinandernehmen und wieder zusammensetzen.Als da wären:Costa ist ein Varoufakis, der sein akademisches, mathematisches, physikalisches Wissen genutzt hat um sich ein finanzielles Polster zu schaffen und mit diesem die reine Lehre zu betreiben, zu forschen. Er liefert in den Dialogen die technologischen Grundlagen, mit denen eine moderne Gesellschaft aufgebaut werden kann, Digitalisierung, Kommunikation - und die Grundlage für die leicht krude Backstory, in der das Buch spielt. Es geht um Wurmlöcher. Oder so. Costa ist Techno-Varo.Eva ist der libertäre Varoufakis, der an die Kraft der Märkte glaubt. Sie glaubt an die Weisheit der Gier von Aktionären, dass es richtig ist, dass wer mehr leistet, mehr verdient. Das man jeden Dollar nur einmal ausgeben kann, und dass wir ohne das Streben nach Profit nicht in 300 km/h schnellen Zügen zwischen Berlin und Dresden sitzend auf Iphones Spielfilme schauen könnten. Wie gesagt, Varoufakis schreibt eine Utopie. Eva ist Lib-Varo.Iris ist der Varoufakis in seiner Studentenzeit. Sie kämpfte an der Seite von Bergarbeitern in England in den Streiks der Siebziger und fragte sich damals schon, ob es weise ist, für eine sterbende Industrie zu kämpfen. Sie weiß, dass der Kapitalismus nicht funktionieren kann und verzweifelt daran, dass sich die Linke nicht endlich einigt um dem Spuk ein Ende zu bereiten. Sie kennt jede progressive Theorie und hasst die linken, woken Grabenkämpfe, in denen es wichtiger ist, wie sich jemand nennt als was er tut. Iris ist der Feminist in Varoufakis und Iris ist ernsthaft frustriert und erschöpft von der Linken. Aber sie ist der Rote Varo.Nach einem ziemlich schlechten und wirklich zu langem Versuch narrativ an den Punkt zu kommen, in dem sich die drei Alter-Ego Varoufakis miteinander unterhalten können, geht es endlich los:Techno-Varo schafft es auf eine ziemlich absurde Art und Weise mit sich selbst in einem parallelen Universum zu kommunizieren (fragt nicht). Dieses "Other Now" wie es fortan genannt wird, hat sich von "Unserem Jetzt" im Jahr 2008, also just im Moment der letzten Finanzkrise, abgespalten und eine andere gesellschaftliche Entwicklung genommen. Als in unserem Jetzt nach dem Kollaps der Lehman Brothers Investment Bank, weltweit Banken hunderte Milliarden aus Staatshaushalten bekamen, damit sie nicht mit kollabieren, wurden im anderen Jetzt, der Parallelwelt, Währungen und damit Banken abgeschafft. "What the f**k?" fragt man sich und hier beginnt Varoufakis mit dem, was er ganz hervorragend kann: Erklären. Und zwar Sachverhalte, die uns alle direkt und täglich betreffen, und die wir dennoch nicht intuitiv verstehen. Die aber, zumindest mit der Hilfe didaktischer Zauberkünstler wie Yanis Varoufakis verstehbar sind, und zwar mit deutlich weniger Anstrengung als man ängstlich denkt.Wie schafft man also Geld ab? Zunächst muss man verstehen, wie Geld entsteht. Seit der zweiten Hälfte des letzten Jahrhunderts wird Geld im Prinzip von einer Zentralbank gedruckt und an kommerzielle Banken verliehen, also die Deutsche Bank, die Commerzbank und wie die Sympathen des Kapitalismus alle heißen. Diese wiederum verleihen das Geld eigentlich und bis zum Jahr 2008 auch halbwegs zuverlässig an Unternehmen, also an die Bäckerei Graf oder auch Bayer/Monsanto, welche dieses dann an die abhängig beschäftigte Bevölkerung zu sehr kleinen Teilen und ihren Aktieninhabern in entsprechend riesigen auszahlen.Die Frage, die Varoufakis hier und durchgehend im Buch stellt ist, immer die gleiche: "Warum?". Selbst uns feststehendste Paradigmen und generationenalte Gewissheiten werden mit einem simplen "Und warum genau machen wir das so?" hinterfragt. Oder wie mein alter Zeichenlehrer Zetsch zu sagen pflegte: "Wenn Dir einer sagt, das mache er schon zwanzisch Jahre so, sag ihm 'Man kann etwas auch zwanzisch Jahre lang falsch machen'". Die beiden hätten sich blendend unterhalten.Hier also, und das kann wirklich nur ein einzelnes kurzes Beispiel sein, das Buch wimmelt von solchen Ideen, eröffnet uns Varoufakis mal kurz auf fünf bis zehn Seiten eine neue Theorie vom Geld. Die natürlich nicht neu ist, die aber das Wissen und die Erfahrung der drei alter Egos, Techno-Varo, Lib-Varo und Roter Varo miteinander verbindet und dann sagt: Warum ändern wir das System nicht so, dass die Zentralbanken, so wie bisher, Geld erzeugen, dieses Geld jedoch digital ist, also ein bitcoin, klein geschrieben, und man dieses nicht über die Armanitragenden Mittelsmänner in ihren lächerlichen Porsches verteilen lässt, sondern direkt an die Bürger auszahlt. Diese erwerben damit Aktien und erhalten Dividenden. Dass in dem System eine Lücke ist, die da lautet "Und wer geht arbeiten?" löst er, in dem er mal soeben den Kapitalismus vom Kopf auf die Füße stellt: Jeder der arbeitet ist automatisch Aktionär und erhält damit Dividenden aus dem Gewinn des Unternehmens. Oder andersrum formuliert, was fast noch mehr Sinn schafft: Keiner der Aktien besitzt, darf untätig sein. Diese Theorie, die ziemlich eindeutig des Roten Varos Handschrift trägt, lässt erwartungsgemäß Lib-Varos' Kopf explodieren, aber im sich daraus entspinnenden Gespräch schafft es der Rote dem Libertären immer wieder klarzumachen, dass diese Form des Kapitalismus "Ein Werktätiger - Eine Aktie" die wahre Form sei. Alle Probleme, von Macht-, Geld- und Gier überhaupt ließen sich damit lösen, Monopole könnten nicht entstehen, Kapitalismus auf Kosten der Umwelt, gang und gäbe in unserem Jetzt, gehöre im "Other Now" der Vergangenheit an. Bis hinunter zum Mobbing würden alle Probleme gelöst durch einen basisdemokratischen Kapitalismus.Und wir sind erst im ersten Kapitel.Es schwirrt einem der Kopf, so dicht und grandios sind die Ideen, so detailliert ausgearbeitet die Umsetzung, so genau die Argumente für und wider - man kann das Buch eigentlich nur in Häppchen lesen. Aber da alles mit allem zusammenhängt, wird keine Atempause eingelegt und alternative Geschichte gemacht. Was alsbald nicht nur den Leser zu einer Frage führt: Ok, wir haben im Other Now die perfekte Utopie mit einer umweltgerechten Marktwirtschaft ohne Kapitalismus, ich will nicht spoilern, aber ja, auf diese uns phantasielose Zeitungsleser unreal erscheinende Idee läuft es hinaus. Die Welt ist in kleinen territorialen Einheiten selbstorganisiert, Geld- und Investmentspekulation sind abgeschafft, die Grenzen zwischen Staaten sind nicht nur mehr für Kapital durchlässig und die weltweite Migration von Menschen läuft in konfliktlosen Bahnen, wir arbeiten ohne das Gemeinwesen oder die Umwelt zu belasten basisdemokratisch organisiert oder auch gar nicht, weil Arbeit nicht alles ist und sein darf. Denn natürlich gibt es ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen, Künstler gehen ihrer Kunst nach, denn eine so hochtechnologische, harmonische Gesellschaft wirft das bisschen auch ab, dass es keiner wohltätigen Gönner oder künstlerischer Prostitution bedarf um einen wöchentlichen Literaturpodcast kompetent zu erschaffen. Ein Paradies. Die Frage also: wenn die da drüben das alles so haben, wie haben sie das geschafft in nur knapp 20 Jahren? (Das Buch spielt im Jahr 2025)Der Leser muss tapfer sein, denn jetzt bringt Real-Life Yanis Varoufakis, mit Hilfe technologischer Tricks seines alter Ego Techno-Varo, seine zwei anderen Alter Ego, Roter Varo und Lib-Varo, in Kontakt mit deren Alter Ego im Other Now. Da waren es schon sechs. Diese erklären ihren bedauernswerten Neandertalern in unserer bedauernswerten Welt, ob und wie sie das Utopia erschaffen konnten. Das zu erfahren würde ich der doch jetzt hoffentlich angefixten Leserin zur eigenständigen Übung anempfehlen - ohne groß zu spoilern.Denn natürlich gibt es einen Unterschied zwischen einem Plan und der Realität, zwischen Utopie und Wirklichkeit. Ein Unterschied namens "der hässliche Mensch". Da es diesen gibt, träumen wir alle Utopien und wenn diese von intelligenten Menschen auf elektronisches Papier gebracht wird, schwelgen wir in deren. Nicht nur weil das weniger anstrengend ist, als sich selbst welche aus zu denken. In unseren ultrarealistischen Zeiten, in denen nichts mehr zählt, wenn es nicht zählt, verändern sich auch die Ansprüche an unsere Träume. Sie müssen real sein und nur wenige zucken bei diesem Gedanken zusammen. So sind wir durch den Kapitalismus konditioniert und wo unseren Vorfahren noch ein Gemälde vom Schlaraffenland reichte, lassen wir einen Varoufakis nicht aus der Verantwortung, ohne das er uns genau erklärt, wie wir da hin kommen. Wo liegt das?Aber er sich selbst auch nicht. Und das ist der Pull des Buches, das Element, welches es einen nicht aus der Hand legen lässt. Es ist der permanente Dialog, im Buch wie im eigenen Kopf, das permanente "Aber...". Die Faszination ist nicht nur der Vergleich zwischen aktueller Realität und der gemalten Utopie, sondern auch, dass diese durch Varoufakis so plastisch dargestellt wird, dass man sich selbst hineinversetzen kann um zu fragen: "Und das funktioniert?! Nein, oder?!!". Und wenn die Fragen weniger werden und Varoufakis' alter Egos immer wieder eine Lösung finden, für dein eingeworfenes "Niemals! Das KANN SO nicht funktionieren" wird dir schon ein wenig Angst, dass Du, nachdem Du schon so manche Nacht als Varo-Fan-Boy, Whisky süffelnd, seine Interviews auf Youtube verschlungen hast, Du jetzt endgültig in einem Kult landest. Aber auch hier ist der Autor vor. Varoufakis ist Wissenschaftler, kein Priester, er ist erratischer Kommunist, kein Diktator. Er gibt Dir die Grundlagen, die Realität zu verstehen und ihn in seine Utopie zu begleiten. Das macht sie verständlich und Dich weniger ängstlich, wenn Du dazu neigst und weniger enthusiastisch, wenn das dein Laster ist. Du kannst Yanis Varoufakis in "eine andere Welt" folgen und gebannt deren Nachrichten verschlingen oder jederzeit umdrehen und selbstbewusst sagen "Alles Quatsch." und das auch begründen und mindestens einer seiner Alter Egos wird Dir zustimmen.Allerdings wirst Du dann aufwachen, in unserer wirklichen Wirklichkeit und Twitter aufmachen, oder CNN an, oder was immer dein täglich Gift ist, und musst dann mit genau den Sachen leben, die du dort siehst.In der nächsten Woche bespricht Anne Findeisen den wiederentdeckten und kürzlich auf deutsch veröffentlichten Roman der Dänin Tove Ditlevsen mit dem Titel „Gesichter“, in dem sie einmal mehr in Abgründe blickt. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lobundverriss.substack.com

In the news today: The Black Student Alliance will be hosting their second annual Black Love Week. Five Black owned businesses to support are being recognized for Black History Month. MSU Volleyball's former coach Cathy George will be replaced by Leah Johnson.

Audio staffer Xavier Ingram reports from his first Black Student Homecoming. He speaks with the president and treasurer of the Black Student Alliance on campus. Ingram explains what Black homecoming is as well as what it feels like to be a Black student attending for the first time.

Episode summary introduction: As a high schooler, Jen loved writing and was part of the school newspaper. She was on the varsity tennis team. She was the president of the equity board. Jen thought she knew what kind of college she wanted to attend. Things, however, turned out a little differently. Jennifer Davis is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a Bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature. In particular, we discuss the following with her: Why UVA? The Transfer Experience Choosing English as a Major Black Student Alliance Advice to Aspiring Students Topics discussed in this episode: Introduction to Jennifer Davis, UVA [] Hi Fives - Podcast Highlights [] Rich Experience at UVA [] Why Fairfield? [] High School Interests [] Transition to Fairfield [] Why Transfer to UVA? [] Transition to UVA [] Faster Academic Transition [] Ambitious Peers [] “Great Professors” [] Club Tennis, Black Student Alliance, & more [] Summers [] Choosing the Major [] UVA Impact on Career [] UVA Redo? Trying to see what happens... [] Advice to Aspiring Students [] Memories: Lawn at UVA, Black Alumni Weekend [] Our Guest: Jennifer Davis is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a Bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature. Memorable Quote: “...everybody wants a good communicator, everybody wants a good writer. Everybody wants somebody that's going to think critically. And yeah, and so that's kind of why I stuck with that [English].” Episode Transcript: Please visit Episode's Transcript. Calls-to-action: Subscribe to our Weekly Podcast Digest. To Ask the Guest a question, or to comment on this episode, email podcast@almamatters.io. Subscribe or Follow our podcasts at any of these locations:, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, RadioPublic, Breaker, Anchor. For Transcripts of all our podcasts, visit almamatters.io/podcasts.

In this edition of the MSU Today podcast, four MSU scholars discuss the sustained significance and impact of Juneteenth.“I am not one who grew up participating in or knowing about Juneteenth,” says Dr. Tamura Lomax (she/her), Foundational Associate Professor in MSU's Department of African American and African Studies (AAAS). “I didn't learn about it until sometime in high school in California. I lived my life between California and New York. And I'd never heard about it in New York, but in California I remember hearing something about it but not really understanding what it is.”Lomax explains what she means when, as a historian, she says the thing about Juneteenth that strikes her is the multiple attempts at freedom.“What's important to me is that, yes, Juneteenth is a celebration, but there's still this delayed sense of gratification in terms of freedom. So that's what's important to me in terms of my work, in terms of noting that. And noting how Black folks free and enslaved have been forced to navigate, this idea of freedom while living a life that is truly within a context of unfreedom.”Dr. Shondra L Marshall (she/her) is a national president of MSU Black Alumni. “I would like to salute the student body and all the excellent and phenomenal work they're doing at MSU. We push, and we move forward. MSU Black Alumni was officially founded in 1980. Under my administration, I have elevated three areas of organizational focus. They are engagement, enhancement, and evolvement. We have an endowment which includes several named endowments at the institution. And that actually was started off at one of our first homecoming events in October of 1980. At that event, they passed around a pumpkin and they raised money, which included $1000 to earmark our endowment at the institution. And today we have over $2.5 million in endowments.“When I think about freedom to liberation, how is MSUBA helping the institution get to liberation? Are we holding the institution accountable and looking at every policy, practice, rule, hire, and program with an anti-Black lens. What I have witnessed under the current administration is some progress, but I'm looking forward to see true change. And to me, liberation looks like access, opportunity, programming, resources, and freedom. And so the question that I like to ask is really just are we thriving? We're getting to liberation and the notion that we are living in a sense of freedom, but there's a sense of unfreedom that we are experiencing. How are we together thriving?”Sharron D. Reed-Davis (she/her) is a senior at MSU studying political science pre-law and human development and family studies. She's the former two-term president of the Black Students' Alliance (BSA). “I didn't grow up celebrating Juneteenth,” she says. “I didn't know much about it. I actually grew up celebrating the Fourth of July. But once I got to college and started getting involved in BSA, that is where I learned about Juneteenth and about what our celebration is supposed to be and when it's supposed to be. Not with the red, white and blue. Not celebrating a country and an institution that has held us down and has taken us for granted.“I think people should care about Juneteenth and want to uplift Juneteenth because not all people were free when everyone was free. Black people weren't free. We're still not free. So this small celebration that we get to have is when we as people got some type of freedom. It was just one step in the steps that we're still taking to become entirely free people. So this small celebration is something big for us. It may not be when everyone was free, but that's because we always have to be last. We always have to be the ones that are enslaved, that are taken for granted, that are pushed around. So this small celebration on Juneteenth is something that's big to us. And that's why people should want to celebrate and care about Juneteenth.”Stratton C. Lee III (he/him) is the president of Michigan State University Black Faculty, Staff and Administrators Association. “When I think about the significance of Juneteenth, I think about it being a celebration of freedom and liberation,” Lee says. “It serves as a reminder to our community of the lives that have been lost - for those who have fought for freedom and liberation coming from the continent of Africa to living their lives here in the U.S. to those of us who are alive today. This has been a fight for African Americans for absolute quality of life, rights and property. We memorialize those who have died and stand in forceful protest of those who have killed them. It is a celebration. And so when we think about liberation and freedom, we think about what does that mean? And what does that look like in word, action, and in deed?“It's important for us to come together at these times. To remember our past. To reflect on our shared histories. To learn about our various experiences and to come together collectively to identify what we want to do as a community as we move forward. It speaks to the resilience of our community and the people within it. “Upon our freedom and liberation, it finally meant that in theory, we are all free. But when you get into what freedom actually looks like, you recognize that our history has been bound to this sense of delay. Many in our communities have experienced those long-term impacts of Jim Crow and segregation and Black Codes, even though we had the Emancipation, the Proclamations, and the Thirteenth Amendment. There are those in this nation who fought tooth and nail to ensure that Black folks would never be able to truly experience that sense of freedom. And on these days and these times where we are able to come together as a community, this is our space to celebrate. To come together and to experience what joys and pleasures we can as a people and as a community. There are many to celebrate and there's much to smile about, even though things sometimes look ugly on the outside.”“To me this is a celebration of blackness,” adds Marshall. “Juneteenth at MSU on June 19th is called Juneteenth Celebration: From Freedom to Liberation. This is the first time MSU has hosted a university-wide celebration to commemorate the ending of slavery in this country. This recognition is really huge for a predominantly white institution. And what I'm most thrilled about is the unity across our affiliate groups, which are represented here today: Black Student Alliance, Black Faculty, Staff and Administrators, of course Black Alumni, and also the Department of African American and African Studies (AAAS) and Black Graduate Student Association as well. It shows the power and unity, and it clearly shows that institutional synergy as we have a trustee and leaders across the institution engaged. The event is going to happen on June 19th from 12:00 to 2:00 and more information, including how to RSVP is on the website of the office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives. This is a true celebration with music, with food, community and more.”“I want to thank both Lee and Shondra for really bringing us back to the Black joy and bringing in that balance because that's very important,” Lomax adds. “I think about the ancestors, and I am amazed. I spent 10 years in what we call the stacks in my graduate program at Vanderbilt reading firsthand slave sources. And I've always been amazed at all the creative ways in which the ancestors have made joy and made beauty and made culture in the midst of complete dehumanization, just complete demonarchy, just complete ugliness they made the space for joy and beauty. I really appreciate that being re-centered.“I'm new to the institution, and I am watching the institution daily. We say in AAAS, ‘Okay, what y'all going to do?' They may say, ‘Well, you have a new department. You're hiring these people.' Well, it's more than that. I want to see all the ways that justice and equity in very real ways center Blackness. How are they lived out in terms of politics? I can't say that I'm seeing that every day. And that is as a new faculty member. I'd like to see what's next. I'd like to see what's next and want more.“This celebration is a start and it's wonderful in terms of acknowledgement. But truth be told, after America was burning last summer, a lot of companies dedicated time and resources and language to DEI efforts and to Black folks. I'm very much interested in how the institution plans to incorporate a model in real life. Beyond the celebration and beyond the building of the department, what is it? What are the plans? I'm very interested in that. Because to me, that should be a part of the efforts. I don't want to talk about Juneteenth and not talk about all the structural ways that the institution should be evolving.”“I want to echo that as well, because I think that a lot of what's been happening with people trying to step up and be allies,” Reed-Davis adds. “It's all good, but the world of social media and the people in charge are trying to make Black culture seem like it's something new and something that just happened or that we just made up. Juneteenth has been a thing. I'm not impressed that because of everything that happened last year, things are finally starting to happen for Black communities. The things that are happening to us are finally coming to light. That's why people are trying to hop on a bandwagon and say that this is not right. It's been not right. So yeah, I appreciate people finally learning and finally highlighting what is happening to Black communities, but what's next now? What's about to happen now because thanks, this was cool, but what's next?”“I want to attend to something else that Sharron pointed to and some of what Dr. Lomax and Dr. Marshall did as well - this sense of progress juxtaposed with trauma,” Lee adds. “Oftentimes people will say, ‘Well, why do you all want to do this? And why do you want to celebrate? And why is it important?' There are many people who have been a part of this. But when you think about it, it's still very new and fresh for many of the folks in our communities.“Many of us are navigating traumas that have been passed down from generation to generation. The fight doesn't stop. We can take time to celebrate. But as we celebrate, we must continue to move forward in advocating for our freedom, our liberty, our justice, and our rights.“I think that that's an important aspect of this celebration. It brings us together in a point of joy and reminds us that we are actually a community of people, one people, who have a common ancestry that brought us to this place in this time.”“I want us to truly think about what freedom deliberation really looks like,” Marshall says. “What are we doing to really look at, as I mentioned before, the policies, the practices, the structure, the hires, the programming, the funding, the resources, the access, and the opportunity? How are we looking at all of these things and holding accountable those who have the decision-making power to ensure that we're getting liberated?”“When I think about the progression of black people, my outlook on it is to appreciate and move forward,” adds Reed-Davis. “Thank you, but what is next? We have a long way to go still, and we have come a long way. We need to appreciate how far we have come but continue to look forward. If we get complacent or stuck on where we came from or what someone gave us, we won't be able to move forward to the next steps and find true liberation. So thank you, but what's next?”“I think about this is a time for the Black community to come together in joy and gladness,” Lee says. “Let's leave all of those internal conflicts and learned helplessness and all that type of stuff behind and find the strength and excitement to celebrate being Black in the U.S. I think about it as being a time our sister Maxine Waters describes as ‘Reclaiming My Time.' This is our time to reclaim. Our time to reclaim our joy. Reclaim our freedoms. Reclaim our peace. Reclaim our power and our energy to be us authentically and unapologetically. We're doing that in what people call a traditionally white space, and we're making an inclusive, diverse community each and every day.”“I am always looking back in order to look forward,” concludes Lomax. “And so sometimes I may dwell in the difficult parts of the past more so than the joy. I think the key here for Juneteenth is really bringing that balance. I know sometimes non-Black folks will see Black folks celebrating and think that we enjoy our oppression. I want to make it clear that when we see people celebrating, it is not about an enjoyment of oppression. It is a sense of finding joy, despite it all. That really speaks to the resilience of Black folks.“To me, that needs to be the centering message of the day: the amazing resilience of Black folks, then and now. It is amazing that Black folks are this resilient and that they can find joy. And so to me, the centering message for the day is that Black folks can find joy in spite of it all.”MSU Today airs Sunday mornings at 9:00 on 105.1 FM and AM 870 and streams at WKAR.org. Find “MSU Today with Russ White” on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your shows.

Airing originally on May 13, 2021 on WYXR 91.7 FM in Memphis, TN, this episode of Faithfully Memphis features Bishop Phoebe Roaf in conversation with Madison Owens, a senior at St. Mary's Episcopal School in Memphis, TN. Throughout high school, Madison has been involved in Black Student Alliance, Honor Council, Student Ambassadors, and Bridge Builders. She plans to attend the George Washington University in Fall 2021. Have a question for the Stump the Bishop segment? Please email Minister of Communication Emily Austin: eaustin@episwtn.org Featured Music: "Higher Ground" by Stevie Wonder “Morning Has Broken" by Cat Stevens "Here I Am, Lord" performed by Chris Bray "What Wondrous Love is This" performed by Chelsea Moon and the Franz Brothers

Black Student Alliance to host annual Black MSU pageant: After a two-year hiatus, The Black Student Alliance will be hosting their annual Black MSU pageant. The event will take place in person on March 26 at 6:30 p.m. at a venue that is yet to be announced. COVID testing and social distancing will be strongly enforced for all contestants and everyone that will be in attendance. The pageant will include an introductory speech, talent performance, and a question and answer round from each of the contestants. BSA says the goal of the pageant is to showcase the talents of the campus community and for contestants to have an opportunity to share their experiences and achievements.Balancing the life of an essential worker and college student: As a certified nursing assistant in the stroke unit at McLaren hospital, Casi Hudak frequently struggles to find enough time to get a full night's sleep on any given day. After completing her duties as a CNA, she is often faced with little free time before returning to her school work. The human biology senior is one of many MSU students that have found themselves on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite many students retreating to their permanent residence to complete their schooling via zoom, there are still some that have continued working in-person. Students have continued to work in all facets of the essential market as essential workers, including healthcare, retail, hospitality services, and on-campus to help keep the Spartan community functioning. Script writer: Kelly WintersThe State is produced by The State News and Impact 89FM.

Celebrating Black HistoryBH365 Student Advisory BoardA Special Interview with the new BH365 Student Advisory Board: Janelle Nangah, Alana Mitchell, Kaliah Yizar, and Dahni Austin are four beautiful talented students who are young activist making a stand for racial injustice and striving to have African American history included in their school and others.  They are also hosts of the informative podcast Know Justice ,Know Peace and at the same time full-time high school students at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Early College (DMLK) in Denver. About their Journey:While school may be out for the summer, students at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Early College (DMLK) are hard at work. Spanning back to an eye-opening visit to the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington D.C. last fall, members of DMLK's Black Student Alliance (BSA) made it their priority to take what they learned and use it to enact change at a local level. Over the past year, the BSA addressed the Board of Education, advocating for a more inclusive history curriculum at Denver Public Schools; they worked on a plan to recreate the African-American History and Culture museum to be on display at DMLK; and they focused on growing their BSA membership.When the tragic deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and several other Black Americans reignited a nationwide movement calling for racial justice and an end to systemic racism, students knew they had to act. Inspired by the work of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's, the BSA members decided to amplify their voices through a medium that would speak to their own generation– a podcast. “We are in the midst of a new Civil Rights movement. Just as the movements of King, X and Carmichael had a prominent role for youth voices and leadership through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, our movement will include the younger generation.” -Statement from the Black Student Alliance."The podcast, titled, “Know Justice, Know Peace, DMLK's The Take” will offer listeners the chance to hear directly from the next generation of leaders on politics and first-hand accounts of the black experience in America.“We have come to the realization that our generation is the future and injustices will forever be our reality unless we commence change NOW. Through this podcast, we are hoping to inspire other youth into making a change in a safe and EFFECTIVE way. We want others to know that through their voice and effort, an impact CAN and WILL be attained.” -Statement from the Black Student Alliance.The BSA announced the new podcast on Juneteenth, serving as both a remembrance of the liberation of the final slaves in Galveston, TX on June 19, 1865, and as a celebration of black voices.“We are tired of the daily discomfort we experience in our skin. We want to hold the people who are responsible for this discomfort accountable, those people include our school district, community, government, and law enforcement.” -Statement from the Black Student Alliance.Visit their podcast at https://jfk.dpsk12.org/2020/09/18/know-justice-know-peace/_____________________________________________________BH365 EducationVisit us at the link below to get the BH365 book:https://www.blackhistory365education.com/joannescaifeNew from BH365 the Music: BH365 Music by KHOA: An Anthology of history in Hip Hop. NOW AVAILABLE at https://fanlink.to/BH365Follow Us weekly, every Friday at www.BHM365.com

Please enjoy this special Black History Month episode featuring Charles Johnson S'14, Brittany Galloway, and Maegan Moguel. We are so pleased to offer you this special episode

Thanks for tuning into the second part of the affirmative action series! This week, I am joined on the podcast by Eden Senay and Nina Todd, the co-presidents of the Black Student Alliance at Yale, and Kevin Quach and Michelle Liang, the previous co-moderators of the Asian American Student Alliance at Yale! Together, we have a conversation about how our perceptions of affirmative action have changed throughout time, misconceptions about affirmative action, the Yale DOJ lawsuit, media coverage of affirmative action and how it takes away attention from other necessary work, our ideal college admissions and education systems, discussions we've had about affirmative action in our own spaces, and more. --- I also wanted to briefly say something about the violence and domestic terrorism that took place at the Capitol this past week. For the past couple of days, I've felt such overwhelming anger and sadness that I haven't really been able to say anything eloquent out loud or on social media. But I wanted to be transparent on this platform—in every way possible, the Homecoming Podcast absolutely condemns this behavior and these white supremacist ideologies. Those people aren't patriots, they weren't just “protestors.” The fact that there were Asians and Asian Americans there, too, and some of the Capitol police and security officers were willingly taking selfies with the rioters, and the police seemed to offer little resistance...I'm just so disappointed and disheartened, and I have so many questions. For now, please, everyone, check in with friends and family members in Washington D.C. and others living in places where riots occurred. I hope you all are taking time to sit and process things, reflect, learn from new things popping up on social media and the news, and take care of yourselves. I'm still sitting here trying to process things, but if you need support or someone to talk to, you can definitely reach out to me. --- Follow Homecoming on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/homecomingpod/) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/homecomingpod) to get to know our guests better, receive quick access to updates, and see behind-the-scenes content! You can also find resources from all of our episodes so far here: https://linktr.ee/homecomingpod. --- Follow BSAY on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bsayale/ Follow AASA on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yaleaasa/ Affirmative action resources doc I've put together (includes history, Harvard case, Yale DOJ lawsuit, about Edward Blum, and more): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pt55QhpN4-8iIhisi5WzuIwM0pBm8X6kpA_s9vkLCh0/edit?usp=sharing --- Thanks to mariokhol and Pixabay for the music! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/homecomingpod/support

Guest Producer and Stone Ridge School Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Michelle Black interviews high school senior Lourdes Russell about the beginning of the National Black Student Alliance and her role as one of several charter organizers.

Students, faculty and staff groups at CU, led by CU Boulder’s Black Student Alliance, called on the University of Colorado to sever ties with the Colorado Correctional industries (CCi) on the grounds that the use of inmate labor was morally and ethically wrong, against the principles a university should stand for. CU President Mark Kennedy … Continue reading CU group compromises on correctional industries affiliation →

Phil Hart earned master's and Ph.D. degrees in sociology in 1970 and 1974 respectively from MSU's College of Social Science. Hart has dedicated his career to studying race in America through the lenses of sociology, urban planning, and social justice. He's authored more than 100 books and articles on race in America and has served as a leader both on campus and around the country on race-related initiatives. Hart talks about his time as a student activist on campus and offers his perspective on the challenges our nation is facing today. “When I first arrived at MSU in the fall of 66, there was a lot of excitement about football. It was Bubba Smith and Duffy Daugherty. That was the center of attention. As we got to April 4th, 1968 with the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, the mood changed totally, and I became very active in campus life. I was one of the founders of the Black Student Alliance that began putting pressure on the university to respond to the racial injustice and the urban protest that was going on starting after the death of Martin Luther King Jr.”Hart talks about how he evolved as a student leader and points out that MSU opened the nation's first department of urban affairs. He was instrumental in establishing an urban experiment station at MSU.He senses a difference in the country's mood following the killing of George Floyd “because the protests are more multiracial and multicultural, and the true awakening is happening in cities and towns around the world like London and Berlin.“Also, what I think about is one of the things that Martin Luther King spoke about. He talked about the arc of history. He said, ‘The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice.' And I think the thing that I see different now from, say 1968, is that I think the arc of history is now bending towards justice. As you think about where all of this is leading today, we're obviously in the midst of a pandemic. I've been on lockdown in my house since March 11th. That plus the collapse of the economy because of our response to the pandemic and then the urban unrest is different than 1968 in that we've got the pandemic laid over these other events. Non-Black people are waking up to the plight that we have been experiencing as Black people in America since we got here in 1619 in a history of racial oppression, racism, and white supremacy, frankly.”Hart writes and speaks about solutions-oriented approaches to social injustice. He explains what he means by “solutions-oriented” and shares his views on reparations.“What we need are solutions for the United States of America to address racism, the question of diversity and inclusion, and wealth creation on the part of Black Americans.” Hart shares his “broad three-pronged approach that I believe are possible solutions moving forward that address social justice and wealth creation. That includes reparations, universities' responsibility, and corporations' responsibility.”Hart says “in many ways, Michigan State University has been ahead of the curve in addressing racism. It was 50 years ago that Clifton Wharton became the president of MSU, the first African American president of a major predominantly white public research university. “And I would expect that Michigan State, among not only land grant universities but universities at large, would be in the lead in terms of addressing these issues. And Michigan State has a significant population of Black students. Even when I was there, and that was 1970, 1974, the number of Black students that we had at MSU exceeded the number of Black students at several historically Black colleges and universities. Michigan State's traditionally been in the lead in terms of issues that relate to Black Americans.”He shares his views on how he would define both White and Black fragility and on how we can all help make a difference in our own communities.“Racism is a virus. In our local communities we can be anti-racist and take proactive steps to make sure that racism is eliminated. COVID-1619 is a vaccine that is needed to fight racism. But before we find a vaccine, just like before we find a vaccine for COVID-19, we can take steps. Wear a mask. Practice social distancing. If all of us in our local communities take an anti-racist stance and stop using skin color as a way to say whether someone is good or bad or that we're going to treat them in a certain way, that's a good first step to take.”MSU Today airs every Sunday morning on 105.1 FM, AM 870, and your smart speaker and connected devices. 

During the May Day Trial, the Black Student Alliance at Yale was committed to making change on and off campus. In episode 7, we hear from BSAY leaders Ralph Dawson and Kurt Schmoke about the student work that thrust the University into the center stage.  The post Revolution on Trial Episode 7: What’s Yale Got to Do With It? appeared first on Artspace New Haven.

Last week we brought you a show about the New Haven’s Black Panther trials and the 1970 May Day rally, fifty years ago now this month, when tens of thousands of protestors gathered on the New Haven Green and the campus of Yale University--in  support of Black Panther Party leaders Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins, who were on trial in New Haven. Many New Haven residents feared violence would break out during the May Day protests. And yet on that day, New Haven remained relatively peaceful. On Yale’s campus, black student leaders played a critical role in making sure that peace held. In this Where We Live Extra, we wanted to share a conversation with one of those student leaders, Ralph Dawson, a member of the Yale Class of 1971 and the moderator of the Black Student Alliance at Yale (BSAY) at the time. Connecticut Public Radio spoke to Dawson about his recollections of the weeks leading up to May 1, 1970. Support the show.

Alyse Robinson and Raajii Daniel are the Co-Presidents of the Black Student Alliance at Yale (BSAY). This interview provides a glimpse into their experiences as Black students and Black leaders at Yale . Stay up to date with BSAY by following them on their instagram, BSAY instagram, or checking out their website, BSAY website. Find out more about the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale by checking out our website and following us on instagram.

Gather with the Black Student Alliance and Multicultural Student Services for a special Monday morning Black History Month convocation featuring Rev. Dr. Cornell Brooks from the Harvard Kennedy School. There will be a talk-back with Rev. Dr. Brooks from 11-11:30 a.m. Cornell William Brooks is Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice at the Harvard Kennedy....

Okay, so you’ve got an RSO. Are all of your problems solved? Not necessarily. Some student groups still face discrimination despite having some kind of organizational solidarity. The online version of this story has the following headline: “Black Student Alliance to celebrate Black History Month with movie screenings and more.” When the same feature made it to the print edition of the WKU Herald the first week of February, the headline omitted the “Black” in “Black Student Alliance.” The February 12th issue of the Herald corrected the error, but at least one BSA associate says that was the only thing the newspaper may have gotten wrong. She said the Herald representatives promised frontpage features for the whole month but failed to deliver. Was this an editorial issue? Or the result of potential bias? Song list: City - Equinox Right as Rain (Instrumental) - J1K

In this episode, host Jack McLoone and editor-in-chief Theresa Schliep first goes through the history of bias incidents at Fordham stretching back to 2015. Then (23:05), Anya Patterson, president of ASILI, The Black Student Alliance at Fordham, joins the show to give her perspective on these incidents. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ♫Music By♫ ●Lakey Inspired - Midnight Bounce ●Song/Free Download - youtu.be/l3TC8XmZPvU ●Follow Lakey Inspired - smarturl.it/Lakey-Inspired

This week's Daily Lobo podcast addresses Black Student Alliance condemning "racist remarks," ASUNM updates and a federal threat to the protection of 90 percent of New Mexico's water. Photo Credit: By Colton Newman/@cnewman101/Daily Lobo The Kappa Kappa Gamma house off of University Boulevard stays busy on the afternoon of Sept. 19, 2018. Kappa Kappa Gamma is in the midst of allegations that members of the sorority used "racial remarks" during an anxiety workshop.

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Yale’s Black Student Alliance, host Tom Ficklin talks with Muhammad Abdullah about his days at Yale in the late ‘60s, his involvement with the Alliance and the greater Yale political community during that tumultuous time, and how it shaped his life afterward.

Host Babz Rawls-Ivy speaks with Guest Nia Berrian, President BSAY about The Black Student Alliance at Yale Celebrating 50 years.

On August 12th, 2017, a massive alt-right and neo-Nazi rally took place in Charlottesville, Virginia. While a large counter-demonstration successfully confronted the fascists, one drove a car into a crowd of protestors, killing at least one and injuring many more. In this special report from the Ex-Worker, we hear the story of the Charlottesville demonstrations from anarchists who put their bodies on the line to stop fascism. This episode includes context and background to understand how the organizing took place, narratives from the streets, and reflections on lessons learned and the state of our struggles moving forward. We also share essays analyzing what we need to do to fight fascism, how the right wing built their murderous momentum, and what their war on protest tells us about the threat to their agenda posed by our resistance. We dedicate this episode to the memory of Heather Heyer, who died at the hands of a fascist this weekend, and to the commitment we share to fighting by any means necessary to ensure that this never happens again. {August 14, 2017}     -------SHOW NOTES------     Table of Contents: Introduction {0:01} Background to the Charlottesville Demonstrations {2:02} Interview: An Anonymous Anarchist of Color on the Charlottesville Demonstrations {12:15} Essay: “Charlottesville and the Rise of Fascism in the USA: What We Need to Do” {36:47} Interview: Two Virginia Anarchists on the Charlottesville Demonstrations {47:37} Essay: “One Dead in Charlottesville: Why the Right Can Kill Us Now” {1:21:59} Essay: “From J20 to Charlottesville: Repressing Protest From Above and Below” {1:25:40} Conclusion {1:38:24} Check this ongoing list of solidarity actions around the world to find a way to get involved in remembering Charlottesville and resisting fascism. Here are links to some of the various solidarity and medical support funds our comrades have vouched for, if you want to make a donation: Dre Harris Medical Fund, Memorial fund by the Democratic Socialists of America, Heather Heyer's Family, #DefendCville Med Fund, VA Youth Rally Victims; Help Queers Defend Cville, SolidarityCville, Natalie Romero Medical Fund, Alexis and Noelle Morris Medical Fund, Black Lives Matter Charlottesville, Black Student Alliance at UVA, Tracye Redd, The Women's Initiative Cville, Allie's Fund We shared two essays originally published on the CrimethInc. blog: “Charlottesville and the Rise of Fascism in the USA: What We Need to Do” and “One Dead in Charlottesville: Why the Right Can Kill Us Now.” We also included a short excerpt from our discussion of resistance to white supremacy in Episode 40; we'd recommend revisiting that episode for background on the anti-police and anti-racist rebellions of 2014–2015. Now is an important time to show support for your local antifa group or project, and to show up when they call to confront white supremacists and fascists. The folks at Three Way Fight have assembled this vouched list of trustworthy antifa resources and groups. Beware, however, of signing up for just any antifa feed—many of them are fake accounts used to doxx genuinely antifascist newcomers to the movement. For a reportback on the July 8th anti-KKK demo in Charlottesville that preceded the August 12th rally, see this episode of The Final Straw. If you'd like to learn more about fascism and the history of anarchist opposition to it, check out the Ex-Worker's Episode 11 and Episode 12. Historian James Loewen has explored the true history of Confederate monuments, and the brutal histories they represent, in his books Lies My Teacher Told Me and Lies Across America. Here's more info about The Hotwire, our forthcoming weekly anarchist newscast.  

DeRay talks with Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe about the deadly white supremacy violence in Charlottesville, VA’s police and state response, and the leadership needed to move forward locally and nationally. Wes Gobar and Devin Willis from UVA’s Black Student Alliance join DeRay, as does Danyelle, the NAACP’s UVA chapter leader to talk about their experiences on the ground and what’s next.

This week we're talking about Charlottesville and the violence surrounding the white supremacist rally "Unite the Right." This week, we're talking directly to the white folks about why racial justice is an LGBTQ issue. To act: * Join Safety Pin Box (https://www.safetypinbox.com/),a monthly subscription box for white people striving to be allies in the fight for Black Liberation. Box memberships are a way to not only financially support Black femme freedom fighters, but also complete measurable tasks in the fight against white supremacy. * Donate to the Southern Poverty Law Center (https://www.splcenter.org/) * To directly impact Charlottesville, donate to the C-Ville Anti-Racist Legal Fund (https://fundly.com/solidarity-c-ville-7-8-anti-racist-legal-fund) or support the Black Student Alliance at the University of Virginia (https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1535/16-uva/index.aspx?sid=1535&gid=16&pgid=1199&cid=2383&dids=409&BLEDIT=1)

"Race Declassified: Post-Racial Divisions" with UCLA law professor Cheryl Harris, was sponsored by UVA Law's Center for the Study of Race and Law on Feb. 26, 2015, along with the UVA Program in Women, Gender & Sexuality; the UVA Departments of Politics, Sociology, English and History; the Office of the Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity; the Associate Dean for the Social Sciences; Social Foundations at the Curry School of Education; the Working Group on Racial Inequality; the Maxine Platzer Lynn Women's Center; UVA's Programs in Political and Social Thought, American Studies, and Political Philosophy, Policy & Law; the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies; the Black Student Alliance; and Feminism Is for Everyone.

Bells pealed around the world on Aug. 28, 2013 at 3 p.m. – including those at the University of Virginia’s Chapel – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, part of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies hosted the event, "The March@50," focusing on ways to revitalize the purpose of King’s speech, which emphasized the need for jobs and justice. That gathering was held in the auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Participants in the discussion included Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, based in the School of Architecture, and executive director of University and Community Action for Racial Equity; U.Va. students from the Black Student Alliance; Kristin Szakos, vice mayor of Charlottesville; Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson Heritage Center; Jim Bundy of Sojourners United Church of Christ; and representatives from the Living Wage Campaign. The participants offered their interpretations in any format they chose – in spoken words, song, dance, instrumental performance, etc., said Deborah McDowell, director of the Woodson Institute and Alice Griffin Professor of English. “My colleagues and I are envisioning this as an occasion to do more than memorialize the speech and reiterate its famous references to the ‘color of their skin’ and ‘the content of their character,’” McDowell said. “Rather, I thought we’d want to see this event as an opportunity – dare I say, an obligation? – to rethink the speech and attempt to re-invigorate its meanings and its promises, as well as the original purpose behind the march. “Let’s not forget that this was the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The rhetoric of dreaming sometimes eclipses the call for jobs and freedom,” she said.

Bells pealed around the world on Aug. 28, 2013 at 3 p.m. – including those at the University of Virginia’s Chapel – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, part of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies hosted the event, "The March@50," focusing on ways to revitalize the purpose of King’s speech, which emphasized the need for jobs and justice. That gathering was held in the auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Participants in the discussion included Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, based in the School of Architecture, and executive director of University and Community Action for Racial Equity; U.Va. students from the Black Student Alliance; Kristin Szakos, vice mayor of Charlottesville; Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson Heritage Center; Jim Bundy of Sojourners United Church of Christ; and representatives from the Living Wage Campaign. The participants offered their interpretations in any format they chose – in spoken words, song, dance, instrumental performance, etc., said Deborah McDowell, director of the Woodson Institute and Alice Griffin Professor of English. “My colleagues and I are envisioning this as an occasion to do more than memorialize the speech and reiterate its famous references to the ‘color of their skin’ and ‘the content of their character,’” McDowell said. “Rather, I thought we’d want to see this event as an opportunity – dare I say, an obligation? – to rethink the speech and attempt to re-invigorate its meanings and its promises, as well as the original purpose behind the march. “Let’s not forget that this was the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The rhetoric of dreaming sometimes eclipses the call for jobs and freedom,” she said.

Bells pealed around the world on Aug. 28, 2013 at 3 p.m. – including those at the University of Virginia’s Chapel – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, part of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies hosted the event, "The March@50," focusing on ways to revitalize the purpose of King’s speech, which emphasized the need for jobs and justice. That gathering was held in the auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Participants in the discussion included Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, based in the School of Architecture, and executive director of University and Community Action for Racial Equity; U.Va. students from the Black Student Alliance; Kristin Szakos, vice mayor of Charlottesville; Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson Heritage Center; Jim Bundy of Sojourners United Church of Christ; and representatives from the Living Wage Campaign. The participants offered their interpretations in any format they chose – in spoken words, song, dance, instrumental performance, etc., said Deborah McDowell, director of the Woodson Institute and Alice Griffin Professor of English. “My colleagues and I are envisioning this as an occasion to do more than memorialize the speech and reiterate its famous references to the ‘color of their skin’ and ‘the content of their character,’” McDowell said. “Rather, I thought we’d want to see this event as an opportunity – dare I say, an obligation? – to rethink the speech and attempt to re-invigorate its meanings and its promises, as well as the original purpose behind the march. “Let’s not forget that this was the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The rhetoric of dreaming sometimes eclipses the call for jobs and freedom,” she said.

Bells pealed around the world on Aug. 28, 2013 at 3 p.m. – including those at the University of Virginia’s Chapel – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, part of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies hosted the event, "The March@50," focusing on ways to revitalize the purpose of King’s speech, which emphasized the need for jobs and justice. That gathering was held in the auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Participants in the discussion included Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, based in the School of Architecture, and executive director of University and Community Action for Racial Equity; U.Va. students from the Black Student Alliance; Kristin Szakos, vice mayor of Charlottesville; Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson Heritage Center; Jim Bundy of Sojourners United Church of Christ; and representatives from the Living Wage Campaign. The participants offered their interpretations in any format they chose – in spoken words, song, dance, instrumental performance, etc., said Deborah McDowell, director of the Woodson Institute and Alice Griffin Professor of English. “My colleagues and I are envisioning this as an occasion to do more than memorialize the speech and reiterate its famous references to the ‘color of their skin’ and ‘the content of their character,’” McDowell said. “Rather, I thought we’d want to see this event as an opportunity – dare I say, an obligation? – to rethink the speech and attempt to re-invigorate its meanings and its promises, as well as the original purpose behind the march. “Let’s not forget that this was the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The rhetoric of dreaming sometimes eclipses the call for jobs and freedom,” she said.

Bells pealed around the world on Aug. 28, 2013 at 3 p.m. – including those at the University of Virginia’s Chapel – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, part of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies hosted the event, "The March@50," focusing on ways to revitalize the purpose of King’s speech, which emphasized the need for jobs and justice. That gathering was held in the auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Participants in the discussion included Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, based in the School of Architecture, and executive director of University and Community Action for Racial Equity; U.Va. students from the Black Student Alliance; Kristin Szakos, vice mayor of Charlottesville; Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson Heritage Center; Jim Bundy of Sojourners United Church of Christ; and representatives from the Living Wage Campaign. The participants offered their interpretations in any format they chose – in spoken words, song, dance, instrumental performance, etc., said Deborah McDowell, director of the Woodson Institute and Alice Griffin Professor of English. “My colleagues and I are envisioning this as an occasion to do more than memorialize the speech and reiterate its famous references to the ‘color of their skin’ and ‘the content of their character,’” McDowell said. “Rather, I thought we’d want to see this event as an opportunity – dare I say, an obligation? – to rethink the speech and attempt to re-invigorate its meanings and its promises, as well as the original purpose behind the march. “Let’s not forget that this was the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The rhetoric of dreaming sometimes eclipses the call for jobs and freedom,” she said.

Bells pealed around the world on Aug. 28, 2013 at 3 p.m. – including those at the University of Virginia’s Chapel – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, part of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies hosted the event, "The March@50," focusing on ways to revitalize the purpose of King’s speech, which emphasized the need for jobs and justice. That gathering was held in the auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Participants in the discussion included Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, based in the School of Architecture, and executive director of University and Community Action for Racial Equity; U.Va. students from the Black Student Alliance; Kristin Szakos, vice mayor of Charlottesville; Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson Heritage Center; Jim Bundy of Sojourners United Church of Christ; and representatives from the Living Wage Campaign. The participants offered their interpretations in any format they chose – in spoken words, song, dance, instrumental performance, etc., said Deborah McDowell, director of the Woodson Institute and Alice Griffin Professor of English. “My colleagues and I are envisioning this as an occasion to do more than memorialize the speech and reiterate its famous references to the ‘color of their skin’ and ‘the content of their character,’” McDowell said. “Rather, I thought we’d want to see this event as an opportunity – dare I say, an obligation? – to rethink the speech and attempt to re-invigorate its meanings and its promises, as well as the original purpose behind the march. “Let’s not forget that this was the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The rhetoric of dreaming sometimes eclipses the call for jobs and freedom,” she said.

Bells pealed around the world on Aug. 28, 2013 at 3 p.m. – including those at the University of Virginia’s Chapel – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, part of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies hosted the event, "The March@50," focusing on ways to revitalize the purpose of King’s speech, which emphasized the need for jobs and justice. That gathering was held in the auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Participants in the discussion included Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, based in the School of Architecture, and executive director of University and Community Action for Racial Equity; U.Va. students from the Black Student Alliance; Kristin Szakos, vice mayor of Charlottesville; Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson Heritage Center; Jim Bundy of Sojourners United Church of Christ; and representatives from the Living Wage Campaign. The participants offered their interpretations in any format they chose – in spoken words, song, dance, instrumental performance, etc., said Deborah McDowell, director of the Woodson Institute and Alice Griffin Professor of English. “My colleagues and I are envisioning this as an occasion to do more than memorialize the speech and reiterate its famous references to the ‘color of their skin’ and ‘the content of their character,’” McDowell said. “Rather, I thought we’d want to see this event as an opportunity – dare I say, an obligation? – to rethink the speech and attempt to re-invigorate its meanings and its promises, as well as the original purpose behind the march. “Let’s not forget that this was the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The rhetoric of dreaming sometimes eclipses the call for jobs and freedom,” she said.

Bells pealed around the world on Aug. 28, 2013 at 3 p.m. – including those at the University of Virginia’s Chapel – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, part of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies hosted the event, "The March@50," focusing on ways to revitalize the purpose of King’s speech, which emphasized the need for jobs and justice. That gathering was held in the auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Participants in the discussion included Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, based in the School of Architecture, and executive director of University and Community Action for Racial Equity; U.Va. students from the Black Student Alliance; Kristin Szakos, vice mayor of Charlottesville; Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson Heritage Center; Jim Bundy of Sojourners United Church of Christ; and representatives from the Living Wage Campaign. The participants offered their interpretations in any format they chose – in spoken words, song, dance, instrumental performance, etc., said Deborah McDowell, director of the Woodson Institute and Alice Griffin Professor of English. “My colleagues and I are envisioning this as an occasion to do more than memorialize the speech and reiterate its famous references to the ‘color of their skin’ and ‘the content of their character,’” McDowell said. “Rather, I thought we’d want to see this event as an opportunity – dare I say, an obligation? – to rethink the speech and attempt to re-invigorate its meanings and its promises, as well as the original purpose behind the march. “Let’s not forget that this was the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The rhetoric of dreaming sometimes eclipses the call for jobs and freedom,” she said.

Bells pealed around the world on Aug. 28, 2013 at 3 p.m. – including those at the University of Virginia’s Chapel – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, part of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies hosted the event, "The March@50," focusing on ways to revitalize the purpose of King’s speech, which emphasized the need for jobs and justice. That gathering was held in the auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Participants in the discussion included Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, based in the School of Architecture, and executive director of University and Community Action for Racial Equity; U.Va. students from the Black Student Alliance; Kristin Szakos, vice mayor of Charlottesville; Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson Heritage Center; Jim Bundy of Sojourners United Church of Christ; and representatives from the Living Wage Campaign. The participants offered their interpretations in any format they chose – in spoken words, song, dance, instrumental performance, etc., said Deborah McDowell, director of the Woodson Institute and Alice Griffin Professor of English. “My colleagues and I are envisioning this as an occasion to do more than memorialize the speech and reiterate its famous references to the ‘color of their skin’ and ‘the content of their character,’” McDowell said. “Rather, I thought we’d want to see this event as an opportunity – dare I say, an obligation? – to rethink the speech and attempt to re-invigorate its meanings and its promises, as well as the original purpose behind the march. “Let’s not forget that this was the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The rhetoric of dreaming sometimes eclipses the call for jobs and freedom,” she said.

Bells pealed around the world on Aug. 28, 2013 at 3 p.m. – including those at the University of Virginia’s Chapel – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, part of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies hosted the event, "The March@50," focusing on ways to revitalize the purpose of King’s speech, which emphasized the need for jobs and justice. That gathering was held in the auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Participants in the discussion included Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, based in the School of Architecture, and executive director of University and Community Action for Racial Equity; U.Va. students from the Black Student Alliance; Kristin Szakos, vice mayor of Charlottesville; Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson Heritage Center; Jim Bundy of Sojourners United Church of Christ; and representatives from the Living Wage Campaign. The participants offered their interpretations in any format they chose – in spoken words, song, dance, instrumental performance, etc., said Deborah McDowell, director of the Woodson Institute and Alice Griffin Professor of English. “My colleagues and I are envisioning this as an occasion to do more than memorialize the speech and reiterate its famous references to the ‘color of their skin’ and ‘the content of their character,’” McDowell said. “Rather, I thought we’d want to see this event as an opportunity – dare I say, an obligation? – to rethink the speech and attempt to re-invigorate its meanings and its promises, as well as the original purpose behind the march. “Let’s not forget that this was the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The rhetoric of dreaming sometimes eclipses the call for jobs and freedom,” she said.

Bells pealed around the world on Aug. 28, 2013 at 3 p.m. – including those at the University of Virginia’s Chapel – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, part of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies hosted the event, "The March@50," focusing on ways to revitalize the purpose of King’s speech, which emphasized the need for jobs and justice. That gathering was held in the auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Participants in the discussion included Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, based in the School of Architecture, and executive director of University and Community Action for Racial Equity; U.Va. students from the Black Student Alliance; Kristin Szakos, vice mayor of Charlottesville; Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson Heritage Center; Jim Bundy of Sojourners United Church of Christ; and representatives from the Living Wage Campaign. The participants offered their interpretations in any format they chose – in spoken words, song, dance, instrumental performance, etc., said Deborah McDowell, director of the Woodson Institute and Alice Griffin Professor of English. “My colleagues and I are envisioning this as an occasion to do more than memorialize the speech and reiterate its famous references to the ‘color of their skin’ and ‘the content of their character,’” McDowell said. “Rather, I thought we’d want to see this event as an opportunity – dare I say, an obligation? – to rethink the speech and attempt to re-invigorate its meanings and its promises, as well as the original purpose behind the march. “Let’s not forget that this was the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The rhetoric of dreaming sometimes eclipses the call for jobs and freedom,” she said.

Bells pealed around the world on Aug. 28, 2013 at 3 p.m. – including those at the University of Virginia’s Chapel – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, part of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies hosted the event, "The March@50," focusing on ways to revitalize the purpose of King’s speech, which emphasized the need for jobs and justice. That gathering was held in the auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Participants in the discussion included Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, based in the School of Architecture, and executive director of University and Community Action for Racial Equity; U.Va. students from the Black Student Alliance; Kristin Szakos, vice mayor of Charlottesville; Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson Heritage Center; Jim Bundy of Sojourners United Church of Christ; and representatives from the Living Wage Campaign. The participants offered their interpretations in any format they chose – in spoken words, song, dance, instrumental performance, etc., said Deborah McDowell, director of the Woodson Institute and Alice Griffin Professor of English. “My colleagues and I are envisioning this as an occasion to do more than memorialize the speech and reiterate its famous references to the ‘color of their skin’ and ‘the content of their character,’” McDowell said. “Rather, I thought we’d want to see this event as an opportunity – dare I say, an obligation? – to rethink the speech and attempt to re-invigorate its meanings and its promises, as well as the original purpose behind the march. “Let’s not forget that this was the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The rhetoric of dreaming sometimes eclipses the call for jobs and freedom,” she said.

Bells pealed around the world on Aug. 28, 2013 at 3 p.m. – including those at the University of Virginia’s Chapel – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, part of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies hosted the event, "The March@50," focusing on ways to revitalize the purpose of King’s speech, which emphasized the need for jobs and justice. That gathering was held in the auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Participants in the discussion included Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, based in the School of Architecture, and executive director of University and Community Action for Racial Equity; U.Va. students from the Black Student Alliance; Kristin Szakos, vice mayor of Charlottesville; Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson Heritage Center; Jim Bundy of Sojourners United Church of Christ; and representatives from the Living Wage Campaign. The participants offered their interpretations in any format they chose – in spoken words, song, dance, instrumental performance, etc., said Deborah McDowell, director of the Woodson Institute and Alice Griffin Professor of English. “My colleagues and I are envisioning this as an occasion to do more than memorialize the speech and reiterate its famous references to the ‘color of their skin’ and ‘the content of their character,’” McDowell said. “Rather, I thought we’d want to see this event as an opportunity – dare I say, an obligation? – to rethink the speech and attempt to re-invigorate its meanings and its promises, as well as the original purpose behind the march. “Let’s not forget that this was the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The rhetoric of dreaming sometimes eclipses the call for jobs and freedom,” she said.

Bells pealed around the world on Aug. 28, 2013 at 3 p.m. – including those at the University of Virginia’s Chapel – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, part of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies hosted the event, "The March@50," focusing on ways to revitalize the purpose of King’s speech, which emphasized the need for jobs and justice. That gathering was held in the auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Participants in the discussion included Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, based in the School of Architecture, and executive director of University and Community Action for Racial Equity; U.Va. students from the Black Student Alliance; Kristin Szakos, vice mayor of Charlottesville; Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson Heritage Center; Jim Bundy of Sojourners United Church of Christ; and representatives from the Living Wage Campaign. The participants offered their interpretations in any format they chose – in spoken words, song, dance, instrumental performance, etc., said Deborah McDowell, director of the Woodson Institute and Alice Griffin Professor of English. “My colleagues and I are envisioning this as an occasion to do more than memorialize the speech and reiterate its famous references to the ‘color of their skin’ and ‘the content of their character,’” McDowell said. “Rather, I thought we’d want to see this event as an opportunity – dare I say, an obligation? – to rethink the speech and attempt to re-invigorate its meanings and its promises, as well as the original purpose behind the march. “Let’s not forget that this was the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The rhetoric of dreaming sometimes eclipses the call for jobs and freedom,” she said.

Bells pealed around the world on Aug. 28, 2013 at 3 p.m. – including those at the University of Virginia’s Chapel – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, part of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies hosted the event, "The March@50," focusing on ways to revitalize the purpose of King’s speech, which emphasized the need for jobs and justice. That gathering was held in the auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Participants in the discussion included Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, based in the School of Architecture, and executive director of University and Community Action for Racial Equity; U.Va. students from the Black Student Alliance; Kristin Szakos, vice mayor of Charlottesville; Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson Heritage Center; Jim Bundy of Sojourners United Church of Christ; and representatives from the Living Wage Campaign. The participants offered their interpretations in any format they chose – in spoken words, song, dance, instrumental performance, etc., said Deborah McDowell, director of the Woodson Institute and Alice Griffin Professor of English. “My colleagues and I are envisioning this as an occasion to do more than memorialize the speech and reiterate its famous references to the ‘color of their skin’ and ‘the content of their character,’” McDowell said. “Rather, I thought we’d want to see this event as an opportunity – dare I say, an obligation? – to rethink the speech and attempt to re-invigorate its meanings and its promises, as well as the original purpose behind the march. “Let’s not forget that this was the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The rhetoric of dreaming sometimes eclipses the call for jobs and freedom,” she said.

Bells pealed around the world on Aug. 28, 2013 at 3 p.m. – including those at the University of Virginia’s Chapel – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, part of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies hosted the event, "The March@50," focusing on ways to revitalize the purpose of King’s speech, which emphasized the need for jobs and justice. That gathering was held in the auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Participants in the discussion included Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, based in the School of Architecture, and executive director of University and Community Action for Racial Equity; U.Va. students from the Black Student Alliance; Kristin Szakos, vice mayor of Charlottesville; Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson Heritage Center; Jim Bundy of Sojourners United Church of Christ; and representatives from the Living Wage Campaign. The participants offered their interpretations in any format they chose – in spoken words, song, dance, instrumental performance, etc., said Deborah McDowell, director of the Woodson Institute and Alice Griffin Professor of English. “My colleagues and I are envisioning this as an occasion to do more than memorialize the speech and reiterate its famous references to the ‘color of their skin’ and ‘the content of their character,’” McDowell said. “Rather, I thought we’d want to see this event as an opportunity – dare I say, an obligation? – to rethink the speech and attempt to re-invigorate its meanings and its promises, as well as the original purpose behind the march. “Let’s not forget that this was the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The rhetoric of dreaming sometimes eclipses the call for jobs and freedom,” she said.

Bells pealed around the world on Aug. 28, 2013 at 3 p.m. – including those at the University of Virginia’s Chapel – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, part of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies hosted the event, "The March@50," focusing on ways to revitalize the purpose of King’s speech, which emphasized the need for jobs and justice. That gathering was held in the auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Participants in the discussion included Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, based in the School of Architecture, and executive director of University and Community Action for Racial Equity; U.Va. students from the Black Student Alliance; Kristin Szakos, vice mayor of Charlottesville; Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson Heritage Center; Jim Bundy of Sojourners United Church of Christ; and representatives from the Living Wage Campaign. The participants offered their interpretations in any format they chose – in spoken words, song, dance, instrumental performance, etc., said Deborah McDowell, director of the Woodson Institute and Alice Griffin Professor of English. “My colleagues and I are envisioning this as an occasion to do more than memorialize the speech and reiterate its famous references to the ‘color of their skin’ and ‘the content of their character,’” McDowell said. “Rather, I thought we’d want to see this event as an opportunity – dare I say, an obligation? – to rethink the speech and attempt to re-invigorate its meanings and its promises, as well as the original purpose behind the march. “Let’s not forget that this was the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The rhetoric of dreaming sometimes eclipses the call for jobs and freedom,” she said.

Bells pealed around the world on Aug. 28, 2013 at 3 p.m. – including those at the University of Virginia’s Chapel – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, part of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies hosted the event, "The March@50," focusing on ways to revitalize the purpose of King’s speech, which emphasized the need for jobs and justice. That gathering was held in the auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Participants in the discussion included Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, based in the School of Architecture, and executive director of University and Community Action for Racial Equity; U.Va. students from the Black Student Alliance; Kristin Szakos, vice mayor of Charlottesville; Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson Heritage Center; Jim Bundy of Sojourners United Church of Christ; and representatives from the Living Wage Campaign. The participants offered their interpretations in any format they chose – in spoken words, song, dance, instrumental performance, etc., said Deborah McDowell, director of the Woodson Institute and Alice Griffin Professor of English. “My colleagues and I are envisioning this as an occasion to do more than memorialize the speech and reiterate its famous references to the ‘color of their skin’ and ‘the content of their character,’” McDowell said. “Rather, I thought we’d want to see this event as an opportunity – dare I say, an obligation? – to rethink the speech and attempt to re-invigorate its meanings and its promises, as well as the original purpose behind the march. “Let’s not forget that this was the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The rhetoric of dreaming sometimes eclipses the call for jobs and freedom,” she said.

Bells pealed around the world on Aug. 28, 2013 at 3 p.m. – including those at the University of Virginia’s Chapel – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, part of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies hosted the event, "The March@50," focusing on ways to revitalize the purpose of King’s speech, which emphasized the need for jobs and justice. That gathering was held in the auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture/Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Participants in the discussion included Frank Dukes, director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, based in the School of Architecture, and executive director of University and Community Action for Racial Equity; U.Va. students from the Black Student Alliance; Kristin Szakos, vice mayor of Charlottesville; Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson Heritage Center; Jim Bundy of Sojourners United Church of Christ; and representatives from the Living Wage Campaign. The participants offered their interpretations in any format they chose – in spoken words, song, dance, instrumental performance, etc., said Deborah McDowell, director of the Woodson Institute and Alice Griffin Professor of English. “My colleagues and I are envisioning this as an occasion to do more than memorialize the speech and reiterate its famous references to the ‘color of their skin’ and ‘the content of their character,’” McDowell said. “Rather, I thought we’d want to see this event as an opportunity – dare I say, an obligation? – to rethink the speech and attempt to re-invigorate its meanings and its promises, as well as the original purpose behind the march. “Let’s not forget that this was the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ The rhetoric of dreaming sometimes eclipses the call for jobs and freedom,” she said.