Sunday, January 19, 2025
The topic of American book bans is a significant on-going conversation. With Banned Books week just passed, continuing these conversations about banned books and what is and isn’t appropriate content is essential. During the 2022-2023 school year, 3,362 books were banned in school districts across the United States. Some of […]
In the cozy atmosphere of the Cahill Career Center office, five panelists sat on the purple couches for a vibrant discussion about their experiences as Black people in the workplace. The Black in the Workplace Panel, co-sponsored by the Career Center, the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Compliance (EDIC) […]
Photo by Jenna Craig The Ramapo College Theater Department’s second virtual production –”Baltimore” by Kirsten Greenidge — opened up the conversation about race during its live-streamed premiere Friday night. “I hope the audience embraces their uncomfortable feelings when watching it and asks themselves why they feel that way,” says […]
Photo courtesy of Ramapo College of New Jersey, Flickr It is no secret that admissions offices consider race when judging a student’s admission into a college, but a new study done by Boston public broadcasting station WGBH shows that people want that to come to an end, and fast. According […]
Photo by Hope Patti In the latest deliberation by the SCOTUS discussion group, Dr. Paul Deck, professor of sociology at Ramapo College, brought the group’s attention to police brutality and its relation to legal precedents and processes. Deck first brought up a few legal cases relevant to the subject of […]
In 2013, the Supreme Court case of Fisher v. University of Texas brought into question the policy of affirmative action as it applied to admissions into college. In this case, the court decided to ultimately reinforce the precedent established in Grutter v. Bollinger with race serving as one consideration in […]
Photo Courtesy of Pete Souza, Wikipedia The Broadway musical “Hamilton” is on the fast track to musical theater history. It won the Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album this year, launched at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 — the highest recorded debut for a cast recording, according to Billboard […]
Courtesy of David Shakebone, Wikipedia This year’s Academy Awards ceremony was set up to be controversial before it even began, with the viral spread of the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag pointing out the glaring lack of people of color as nominees for the show’s top acting categories. Dozens of black actors vowed […]
Photo courtesy of David Shankbone, Wiki Jesse Owens was one of the greatest Olympic athletes of all time. Unfortunately, “Race” – the new movie about his life and his participation in the controversial 1936 Olympics – doesn’t live up to that greatness. Every year, a plethora of sports movies hit […]
Photo by Rebecca King Last Wednesday, Vanna Garcia, Kevin Hurtado, Domonique Jarrett and I met with President Peter Mercer and Kat McGee, director of Affirmative Action and Workplace Compliance, to discuss the racial climate at Ramapo. As concerned student leaders of color on campus, we requested the meeting with President […]
