The League of Conscious Knowledge Seekers (L.O.C.K.S.) brought self-proclaimed "Prince of Pan-Africanism" Umar Johnson to speak at the Kiva on Monday, but the controversy surrounding the speaker had little...
Stephanie Martoccia
Diversity Reporter
• February 14, 2016
When freshman fashion design major Whitney Davis was growing up, she didn’t own many Barbie dolls. None of them looked like her. Instead, she played with the Bratz line of dolls, which had a brown...
A Kent State graduate who works with Syrian refugees said the refugees camps are “like concentration camps.”“I’m sorry to put it that way but they are,” said Murat Gurer, executive director of...
With an emphasis on “keeping it real,” eight Kent State student panelists, ranging in years from sophomore to PhD candidates, got together in the Student Center Ballroom Balcony Tuesday night for a...
For the second year in a row, the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards drew criticism as every nominated actor happened to be white. The announcements resulted in the revival of the Twitter trend...
Soledad O’Brien, award-winning broadcast journalist, philanthropist and chairman of Starfish Media Group, told an audience of around 450 about diversity in television and everyday life.O’Brien began...
The Integrated Greek council will officially be formed this year to improve diversity in the Greek life community.“This council formed out of want to see all our current chapters grow and flourish here...
Historically, institutions of higher education have been known for transforming the minds, perspectives and aspirations of those who enter them.Residential liberal arts colleges provide students with the...
Kent State's school of Fashion has increased nearly 20 percent in the last decade. The increase in the Fashion School student body has been a gradual process, but the challenges of handling such a large...
I have been writing about race, prejudice and racial insensitivity since I was a columnist in 2012. I have seen the racial climate in Kent State shift back and forth but it seems to have come to a boil...
Kate O’Brian, president of Al Jazeera America, spoke of diversity not only in the newsroom, but also in her personal life on Wednesday, as the recipient of the Robert G. McGruder Distinguished Guest...
