Social Justice Teach-In: International Access to Education | Monday, March 21 | 6 PM | Chandler Ballroom C, University Center We’ll discuss women’s education globally and advocacy for equitable access to education worldwide.Undergraduate Research Forum on Women’s and Gender Studies | Wednesday, March 23 | 4 – 6 PM | Lee Hall, Room 411 Join […]
Healing Through History: Recognizing Our Struggles While Celebrating Our TriumphsThe story of the Black experience in the United States has fluctuated between a series of struggles and triumphs. Since arriving to this continent on slave ships, people of African descent have endured hardships and tragedies from slavery to the current mass incarceration epidemic. Despite the […]
Last March, Rev. Dr. LaKeisha Cook stood by Gov. Ralph Northam’s side as he announced that Virginia would become the first southern state to abolish the death penalty.“Today, we turn the page in the history books,” said Cook, a Baptist minister and civil rights advocate, noting that the commonwealth once allowed the second highest number […]
Every January, our nation dedicates time to commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His prophetic words on racial injustice, voting rights, economic justice, housing discrimination and public safety are still relevant more than 60 years later. One of Dr. King’s greatest desires for this nation and world was the achievement […]
Acclaimed writer Kenny Fries had a message to impart last week when he spoke to University of Mary Washington students: “Disability is just a different way of moving through the world.”Fries, an author and activist whose work focuses on his experiences of being disabled and gay, came to UMW to deliver the keynote address for […]
