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A celebration black life, achievement and history began in 1926 when Dr. Carter Woodson declared that the second week in February would be known as Black History Week. SABU continues on this tradition by planning a week long of activities that will…

SABU hosts Black Emphasis Month with black women in the eighties as their central theme. Unique in the predominantly white and all-male institution, SABU works to bring perspective and celebrate the accomplishments of black women by inviting black…

SABU members pose for the Calyx.

The members of MSA pose for a Calyx group photo. Also featured in the photo to the far left are the groups advisors, Courtney Penn and Anece McCloud.

Dean Anece McCloud is hired shortly after John White, previous director of minority affairs, is fired by President Emeritus John Wilson. Her efforts include expanding the title to "director of students for minority affairs" and meeting with the…

The Minority Students Association (MSA) sits for a Calyx yearbook photo in 1988.

The members of SABU created a brochure used by University admissions as recruitment material. The pamphlet exhibits fictive kinships within the text, highlighting the community within the members of SABU and a general closeness. Before the academic…

In this particular article, Ring-tum Phi writer, Dana Bolden, writes that the words "black unity" was increasingly perceived as if the blacks in W&L were uniting against someone or something. Additionally, Bolden wrote that groups should not be…

Dana Bolden '89, then a sophomore journalism major, founded a minority recruitment group with fellow sophomore Tom Brickel. Students are working to attract qualified minority students to W&L while also working to invite non-minority students to…

“Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.” - Chimamanda Ngozi…