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We acknowledge the truth that is often buried: We are on the ancestral lands of the Piscataway People, who were among the first in the Western Hemisphere. We are on indigenous land that was stolen from the Piscataway People by European colonists. We pay respects to Piscataway elders and ancestors.
" Breonna Taylor!" a crowd of about 200 University of Maryland (UMD) students shouted back, as they gathered around the main administration building near the center of campus, remembering a Black woman who was killed by police in Louisville, Kentucky, on March 13.
Jordan Bridges sometimes talks with her mom and grandma about how the protests they attended when they were her age were different than the ones she goes to now. For one, her relatives were more likely to be battered by racial slurs when they marched for Black lives, she said.
Drs. Darryll J. Pines, Jonathan Holloway and Gregory Washington, three Black leaders in higher education, now face the challenge of beginning their presidencies at predominantly White institutions (PWIs) during a time of two crises: the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and protests over racial...
August Town Halls Most recent Nyumburu x BFSA Town Hall - 8/26/2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g-sPK4qxXk&t=2921s Pines X The Diamondback - 8/24/2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhNiZCHIuAg BFSA/Nyumburu Town Hall Series (Black Lives Matter Need to Matter on Campus) 8/11/2020 https...
As the sky turned pink behind the University of Maryland's Miller Administration Building Thursday evening, a masked crew of students gathered at the top of McKeldin Mall. Though some clustered in groups on picnic cloths, most kept their distance from one another - sprawled out around traffic cones spaced six feet apart on the lawn.
BLACK TERPS MATTER- How we can act immediately (before the semester starts) | bit.ly/BTMaction 7/23/2020 - do these action items by 8/26 Reach out to any of the organizations mentioned and give yourself as an advisor, follow them on IG and find out how you can support/when you can support.
Black Terps Matter Action Plan #2 https://bit.ly/BTMAction2 | 9/01/2020 American capitalism has mastered the ability to commodify radical political figures, histories, and movements. One way this has happened involves selected histories that are popularized in order to encourage a certain line o...
Black Terps Matter Action Plan #3 | 10/03/2020 October 1st, 2020 - 2nd Lieutenant Richard Collins, III's Law Thank you for the support! | http://bit.ly/BTMAction3 On May 20th, 2017, a tragedy occurred when 2nd Lieutenant Richard W. Collins, III was fatally stabbed in an apparent hate crime th...
Reprinted with the permission of the Diamondback Originally published July 27, 2020 Views expressed in opinion columns are the author's own. As another sweltering summer passes us by, the University of Maryland has shut off air conditioning in multiple dorms across the campus.
