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The goal of the demonstration, according to DLH vice-president and junior Andre Hodges, is to keep the conversations going and to continue “raising awareness about governments failing Black lives” in the United States, the African continent, and the Caribbean.   Read More

Xclusive Step Team, clad in leather jackets and black berets, played boisterous hosts to UR’s “Stomping Through Dimensions” local middle-and-high-school step competition in a packed Strong auditorium on Saturday afternoon. The self-proclaimed “best, most powerful, and only step team on campus,” as one member of Xclusive put it, asserted “attitude, arms, power, and precision,” while […]

Over the past week Black Students’ Union hosted their annual weeklong celebration of Kwanzaa, a Pan-African celebration that honors African unity and culture by focusing on seven core principles: Umoja (unity), Ujima (collaboration), Kujichagulia (self-determination), Ujamaa (cooperative economics), Nia (purpose), Kuumba (creativity), Imani (faith). The first event of BSU’s “For The Culture Week,” began on […]

At noon on Friday, Nov. 20, leaders of the Douglass Leadership House (DLH) , Minority Student Advisory Board (MSAB), Spanish and Latino Students’ Association (SALSA) and the Black Students’ Union (BSU) held a protest to express solidarity with the students at Mizzou and other universities “in their plight against systematic racism and oppression." Read More