A variety of cultures from the African diaspora were celebrated Thursday night as part of House of Black Culture, deviating from past years when the focus was on African-American culture. Every February, the University of Miami’s United Black Students (UBS) hosts a number of events during Black Awareness Month, commonly known as Black History Month. House…
Within the last year, multiple celebrities have been called out for appropriating black culture. Hunger Games star Amandla Stenberg made a video titled “Don’t Cash Crop On My Cornrows” that addressed the cultural appropriation of historically black hairstyles such as braids, twists and dreadlocks, and criticized other celebrities for not acknowledging the appropriation of black…
Typical Valentine’s Day gifts include chocolate, flowers or a stuffed animal, but the University of Miami offers a gift that will last long past the annual holiday – only it can’t be taken home. The engraved bricks that make up the Love Bridge outside of the Patti and Allan Herbert Wellness Center are also known…
On the fourth night of Hanukkah the University of Miami unveiled Hillel’s new home, the Braman Miller Center for Jewish Student Life. The renovated Hillel center was unveiled Wednesday, 62 years after the original building was built in 1953. The center was named after the Braman and Miller families for their $2.5 million naming gift….
Julia Garcia tried to dispel the myth that students need sex, alcohol and drugs to create the perfect college years, and she revealed the dark reality of relying on any of the three to get through college. Garcia founded “TRUality – the TRU movement” because she wanted to create an organization that could prevent students from…
A Week 4 Life hosted an art expo to showcase participants’ feelings toward sexual health through photography, painting, song and spoken word Thursday night in the Shalala Student Center. The organization is a programming board dedicated to educating the University of Miami community on issues regarding HIV/AIDS and reproductive health. It was their fifth annual art expo. “We…
Theatre arts department is partnering with Miami-Dade County, Arts for Learning and the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center to create an intensive three-year theatre training program for African-American high school girls. The accelerated theatre arts program will begin in summer 2016. Under professor Tarell Alvin McCraney’s leadership, students will perform a Greek play their sophomore…
Members of the sorority Zeta Tau Alpha and the Director of the Miami Institute for the Americas at the University of Miami, Felicia Knaul, turned the Cobb Fountain pink for the first time in honor of breast cancer awareness month. “[Lake Osceola] is in many senses the center of a great university. The heart and soul of…
The Women in Tech Careers Event on Tuesday night at the Toppel Career Center demonstrated to young women that their dreams of entering the male-dominated world of technology can become reality. The event was developed by Sawsan Khuri, director of engagement for the University of Miami’s Center for Computational Science. Khuri was inspired to have…
St. Bede Episcopal Chapel was packed with students, faculty and alumni Wednesday night as the United Wesley Foundation of Miami brought activist Bree Newsome to speak at their first Master Lecture Series titled “Courage to Be: Bringing Down the Flag.” Newsome gained national and international attention for her courageous act of climbing up South Carolina’s…
Saturday afternoon before the football team took on the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats, freshmen and first-year students prepared for the University of Miami’s annual tradition that takes place each first home game of the season: Freshmen Walk. Freshmen Walk is an initiative created by Category 5 and Hurricane Athletics that allows freshmen to walk on to the Sun Life Stadium football field before the…
Students gathered at The Rock Plaza Saturday morning to kick off the Butler Center for Service and Leadership’s annual Orientation Outreach day of service. Orientation Outreach is the first service day of the academic year at the University of Miami, aiming to introduce and integrate new students into the greater Miami community while inspiring them…