Tuesday, April 22, 2025
With Black History Month well underway at Ramapo College, the Black Student Union (BSU) has been hosting events every week to honor and celebrate Black culture and history. On Thursday, Feb. 20, BSU and the College Programming Board (CPB) came together to host Black History Through Food and Fashion. This […]
The Black Student Union (BSU) hosted a Soul Food Night with Ramapo Dining in the Birch Tree Inn on Feb. 4. The event featured favorites such as fried chicken, macaroni and cheese and caesar salad. Additionally, Ramapo College students had the opportunity to enjoy oxtail, collard greens, candied yams, cornbread […]
With the start of February comes Black History Month celebration here at Ramapo College. To kick off the month of festivities and celebration of black history, Ramapo’s Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Compliance (EDIC) invited students and faculty to the Opening Proclamation for Black History Month. The proclamation was […]
Ramapo’s Black Student Union (BSU) and Dining Services hosted a Black History Month dinner on Tuesday. The dinner was a celebration of Black history and culture and informed students on how the community celebrates Black History Month. This event was one of many hosted throughout Black History Month at Ramapo. […]
Two schools in Miami have adopted a new practice in which students must have signed permission slips to participate in activities related to Black History Month. iPrep Academy and Coral Way K-8 adopted this measure to remain in accordance with the “Parents’ Bill of Rights” signed by Florida Gov. Ron […]
With February underway, Black History Month is being celebrated all across campus. Throughout the month, Ramapo will be hosting events from the Black Student Union (BSU), the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Compliance (EDIC), the College Programming Board (CPB), Students of Caribbean Ancestry and many more to celebrate the […]
Respectability politics may not be something that most people are familiar with or understand, but Tanadjza Robinson-McCray and Miranda Garcia want to change that, especially for students of color on Ramapo’s campus. Robinson-McCray, the Educational Opportunity Fund student development specialist, and Garcia, the graduate assistant for the Cahill Career Development […]
Every year when Black History Month rolls around, worry fills the population as they begin to think about what corporations are going to do as a form of “activism.” In 2021, Twitter user @_shelbyparis tweeted, “Kinda not looking forward to Black History Month for the simple fact we’re about to […]
Poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou. Olympic athlete Jesse Owens. Astronaut Mae Jemison. Civil rights activist Rosa Parks. These were just a few of the historic Black figures that appeared on a slideshow that the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Compliance (EDIC) set up to play before and […]
Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Comapny, Wikipedia. Disney+ ended Black History Month with their release of “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder” on Wednesday Feb. 23, a revamp of the animated series “The Proud Family” that originally aired on Disney Channel from 2001 to 2005. The Prouds are definitely louder […]
