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Black History Month 2020, Features

Friday, February 28, 2020

‘Is the university prepared to teach us something new?’: June Jordan and the roots of Poetry for the People

Betty Park/File

When you walk into UC Berkeley’s Poetry for the People, or P4P, class (African American Studies 156AC) you are walking into a revolutionary landscape that has cultivated and nurtured young student poets since its 1991 conception.
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Black History Month 2020, Visual Art

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

de Young Museum brings internationally acclaimed ‘Soul of a Nation’ exhibit within its gates

With “Soul of a Nation” exploring the range of the Black experience in two prominent decades of its history, the de Young brings viewers the chance to put the Black back in Black history month.
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Black History Month 2020, Local Event

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Damien Sneed finds new congregation with ‘We Shall Overcome’

Sneed made sure to keep the gospel sentiment strong in each song he played by eliciting audience interactions.
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Black History Month 2020, Sounding Off

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Damien Sneed discusses Cal Performances’ MLK tribute show ‘We Shall Overcome’

Coinciding with the 400th anniversary of enslaved Africans’ forced arrival to the United States, Cal Performances presented Damien Sneed’s latest intersectional multimedia production on Thursday. 
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Black History Month 2020, Culture Shot

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Rising Black artists in music: Celebrating Black History Month

Today, countless Black artists are innovating within the world of music and creating amazing rhythms.
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Black History Month 2020, Culture Shot

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

‘The Color Purple’: A sublime portrayal of lesbianism ahead of its time

While the book is explicit both about the sexual encounters between Celie and Shug and the fact that they are in love with each other, Steven Spielberg’s 1985 cinematic adaptation reduces their relationship to one kiss.
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Black History Month 2020, Pressroom Banter

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

The Black quarterback

Changing the game

The discrepancy under center points to a race barrier that still exists today despite Marlin Briscoe having supposedly broken it 52 years ago.
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Black History Month 2020, Football

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Here to stay: Josh Drayden on the importance of sports in social progress

One of 1,084 Black students out of the total 31,348 undergraduate that comprise UC Berkeley, Drayden is part of one of campus’s smallest minorities, making up 3.46% of Cal’s population.
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Black History Month 2020, Campus

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Black community members, UCPD discuss patrol cars on Barrow Lane

For almost a year, UCPD and members of the Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center have been discussing the UCPD patrol car parking area on Barrow Lane.
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Black History Month 2020, Campus

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

UC Berkeley African American Initiative expects to double number of scholarship recipients in 2020

Despite funding and campus climate challenges, the UC Berkeley African American Initiative expects to double its number of scholarship recipients in 2020.
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