After the Iowa legislature passed a bill to eliminate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies and practices from Iowa’s regent universities, multicultural student organizations, like the Black Student...
Preface
65 years ago, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. visited the University of Northern Iowa’s Lang Hall Auditorium to deliver a speech regarding the Montgomery bus boycott that helped catapult the...
As of 2023, there was only one multicultural sorority on campus, Lambda Theta Alpha. However, enrollment has also slipped in recent years. Now, with the help of soror and Tau Chi chapter president Kaylynn...
There is no better way to indulge and immerse ourselves into the power of storytelling than the arts— music, movies, paintings…you name it. Art has the ability to take us to vulnerable places, and...
Editor’s Note: This article is part of the essay “International Students at UNI, 1896-1967,” by University Archivist Gerald L. Peterson for UNI Special Collections and University Archives. It was...
For UNI Black Student Union (BSU) President Randy Whitfield and BSU Vice President Celia Emunah, stepping onto UNI’s campus for the first time was intimidating. But thanks to BSU, they were able to find...
Editor’s Note: This article is from Feb. 24 2022
Black History Month: A time dedicated to the celebration of Black history, culture and excellence. According to National Geographic, the first official...
My musings this Black History Month: Truly these past two years have been an arduous struggle navigating life on the rough terrain of COVID-19. We have lost loved ones, memorialized, and buried a multitude...
One thing that is always going to be relevant in our society is education. The more we advance, the more we need to make sure that education is inclusive for all students. While there is progress being...
Excited, thrilled and nervous is an understatement to how I felt when I opened my acceptance letter to be a resident assistant (RA) for the University of Northern Iowa. Though I will not be returning to...
Being white passing isn’t a gift. It isn’t some kind of “special achievement” where I can just choose sides. I get caught in the divide between being white and Black. Being white passing is a blessing...
