February 12, 2021 marks the start of the Chinese New Year–the Year of the Ox. It is an important celebration for many people, not only Chinese. More than 1. 5 Billion people celebrate this holiday in mainland China and Hong … Continue reading Its the Chinese New Year! Let’s Remember the Deep Roots of Afro-Asia
By Andrea Gonzales, BC ‘22 Navigating the world at the intersection of various identities has always been a reality for many, even before the vocabulary and theory of intersectionality was invented. In 1989, Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” … Continue reading The Combahee River Collective: The Importance of Intersectionality
Did you know the first graduate of the City University of New York’s pioneering SEEK program is Baruch graduate, Patricia A. Stonewall? She later became a doctoral candidate at CUNY’s Graduate Center and an instructor in Black and Latino Studies? … Continue reading SEEK and Baruch’s Pioneering History
#Nuyorican #BlackHistory #poetry #AfroLatinx In 1973 Nuyorican Poets began meeting in Miguel Algarin’s apartment in New York City’s lower east side (LES or Alphabet City). Along with Algarin, Miguel Pinero, Bimbo Rivas, and Lucky Cienfuegos formed the Nuyorican Poets Cafe … Continue reading Nuyorican Poets + Black History
Join us as we celebrate 50 Years of BLS@Baruch. We will also announce our plans for a BLS major, and share our recommendations for an ad hoc major while the major is in the approvals process. We will also share … Continue reading BLS Open House! February 18@1PM
Low-income, Black and Brown neighborhoods across New York City have long had challenges to accessing quality food. BLS Professor Regina Bernard-Carreno and her students traveled up and down New York state to find quality food and they discovered how racial … Continue reading Food as History
When James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) wrote a poem called “Lift Every Voice and Sing” and his brother J. Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954) set it to music in 1900, they could not have known the spiritual would come to be known as … Continue reading Lift Every Voice and Sing!
Why is Black History Month the shortest month of the year? Professor Lewin explains its not just a month, it’s a season! #blackhistorymonth Continue reading Its Black History Season!
by Andrea Gonzales BC ’22 #ActionFridays #BlackHistoryMonth Queerness has always been ingrained into the history and wisdom of people internationally; Gender and sexuality have always been more expansive than the words we create to describe and label them. Yet, our … Continue reading All Black Lives Matter: Honoring Black Trans Lives
#BaruchCollege #CUNY #BlackHistory Robert C. Weaver, the first President of Baruch College, was an economist with a longstanding commitment to racial justice. Appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, making him the … Continue reading Baruch President S. David Wu on Baruch’s First President Robert C. Weaver