Gloria Oladipo

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Gloria Oladipo

In recent weeks, the fate of the United States Postal Service (USPS), a revered and vital public institution, has been uncertain. Since the start of his second presidency, Donald Trump has launched major changes to the federal government.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Gloria Oladipo

For Nevaeh Parker, the president of the Black student union (BSU) at the University of Utah, Black History Month is usually a buzzing time on campus. The school’s BSU hosts several events – kickback parties and movie screenings – throughout the month. The Black cultural center, where students would usually congregate and attend activities, would be full. And the month’s crown jewel would typically be a conference at the college for Black high schoolers in the area.

1 month ago | msn.com | Gloria Oladipo

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1 month ago | theguardian.com | Gloria Oladipo

What makes blue Black? In her latest book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People,thescholar and writer Imani Perry traces the spanning, interdisciplinary connection between the color blue and the Black diaspora. The book opens with a simple anecdote: Perry’s grandmother had a blue bedroom. Not just any blue, but “bright, like the sky in August”, Perry writes. She ponders why her grandmother chose that blue. Was it simply preference, a reminder of her grandmother’s rural upbringing?

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Gloria Oladipo

A group of pro-Palestinian student protesters stormed a Barnard College building on Wednesday to protest the expulsion last month of two students who interrupted a university class on Israel. The demonstrators, who numbered in the dozens, staged a sit-in outside Barnard dean Leslie Grinage’s office in the college’s Milbank Hall, the Columbia Spectator reported.