As the movement for social justice and racial equity reached a critical point following the death of George Floyd last May, Khyati Verma, M.S. ’20, completed her master’s thesis on the impact of colorblind racial attitudes and implicit bias.
Social Work Day 2021: Your Normalcy Excludes Me: Eradicating Racism in Social Work will be a two-day interactive, online Zoom event March 25 and 26.
The Crossroads Project will present a staged reading of the new play The DePriest Incident by Charles White, winner of the 2021 Diverse Voices Playwriting Initiative.
The Office of Student Research announced the winners of the 2021 Image of Research competition.
Registration ends March 15 for the CRCC Spring Institute featuring education scholars and practitioners Dr. Tyrone Howard, Dr. Kisha Porcher, Dr. Pamela Hoff, and Dr. Beth Hatt.
Dr. Calvin White Jr., of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, delivered a virtual keynote address for Black History Month on February 26. The talk, “Oscar S. De Priest: A Black Congressman in Jim Crow America,” was sponsored by the Department of History and by African-American Studies at Illinois State University.
Students and alumni connect virtually to discuss how to transition from college to career.
The Native American Film Series for spring 2021 will include discussion forums focusing on historic, contemporary, and unheeded issues facing Indigenous peoples.
Dr. Ollie Watts Davis, the Suzanne and William Allen Distinguished Professor in Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), will present “Yet With A Steady Beat: The Art, Aesthetics, and Activism of the Music of Black Americans” at 7 p.m. March 22. A question-and-answer session with Dr. Watts will immediately follow her presentation. Registration for the free, online presentation is open now.
Oscar Stanton DePriest, who became a national political figure during his three terms in Congress, is the focus of the February 26 event.
