Hundreds of protesters who marched the streets of Kent yesterday afternoon sent a strong message to any observer who witnessed their demonstration: people are tired, angry and determined to see changes...
“Get out of your house and into the streets,” chanted Arkayla Tenney-Howard, Kent State alumna, along with other protesters as they marched through the streets of Clayton, Missouri. Throughout the...
Samaria Rice called for "white privilege" Americans to get involved in the Black Lives Matter movement during her keynote address as part of the annual May 4 commemoration ceremony. "It's almost like...
After guest speaker Umar Johnson spoke at the KIVA on Tuesday night, Johnson took questions from the audience, including one by Jordin Manning, a freshman studying zoology major.Manning is part of the...
With the recent protests at the University of Missouri and Black Lives Matter activism across the country, race relations is something many people are starting to pay attention to, including Kent State.Students...
Since the news broke about Friday’s attack in Paris, I have been searching for the words to articulate my many mixed emotions and overall, cognitive dissonance.I suppose there are no easy answers, only...
As we prepared to honor military veterans at Wesleyan University's first home football game, I sought out one of our engaged and thoughtful student veterans.Bryan Stascavage had published an opinion piece...
I want to thank the members of the campus community who were kind enough to drop me emails in support of my column from Oct. 5.With regards to Dr. Juilo Cesar Pino’s letter to the editor on Oct. 7:Pino’s...
Kent State’s Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. will be hosting the “Our Time is Now" Benefit Concert on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Kiva to raise awareness about the #blacklivesmatter movement.The event is...
The Safe Spaces speaker series will host its next event, Why It Is Not All Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter in the Past and Future, this Tuesday at 7 p.m.The speakers will be Austin McCoy, a Kent State...
Tuesday night, Kent State started the first of hopefully many talks on specific issues that face our community. Our first topic was race relations here on campus. I thought it was an insightful evening...
It has been a long battle to challenge the authority of power-tripping police officers attacking and beating and shooting the citizens they were supposed to protect and serve, more specifically unarmed...
