Black-Friday
2020-08-15T17:44:17.758Z
“Swan Lake” is a white ballet.
2020-04-21T07:13:57.332Z
During a days-long occupation of what would eventually become the Malcolm X Lounge in April 1970, students from the Afro-American Society demanded that Columbia create an official space for Black students on campus. Their demands reflected the momentum from the 1968 protests, during which students occupied Hamilton Hall in protest of the University’s plans to build a segregated gym in Morningside Park.
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2020-04-08T07:06:55.693Z
When the nation’s emergency rooms were empty, low-income Black communities did not have access to nearby hospitals. When specialized doctors were still booking appointments, they did not schedule patients on Medicaid.
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2020-03-09T04:59:38.597Z
Brianna Johnson, BC ’21, is one of the few Black students in her year who is a theater major. Had she not been inspired by her work with the Black Theatre Ensemble, she might have completely changed her route.
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2020-02-26T20:13:21.397Z
In honor of Black History Month, Spectator is publishing a series on notable black alumni, scholars, activists, leaders, and more whose stories should be honored. Upon graduating from Barnard, Vernice Miller-Travis, BC ’80, participated in the study that coined the term “environmental racism.” By hand, she drew the heat maps that showed race was the most significant factor of toxic exposure.
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2020-02-20T06:51:23.118Z
In honor of Black History Month, Spectator is publishing a series on notable black alumni, scholars, activists, leaders, and more whose stories we wish to honor. Audre Lorde, a civil rights activist and writer, would be the first black woman to have a space named in her honor on Columbia’s Morningside Campus.
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2020-02-20T04:12:31.712Z
Updated on Feb. 20 at 10:39 p.m.
2020-01-27T05:10:12.169Z
Last month, our community suffered the tragic loss of Tessa Majors, a Barnard first-year who was brutally murdered in Morningside Park, just a few steps away from Columbia’s campus. Tessa was a talented musician, an advocate for women, and beloved by all who knew her. Although the news of her passing has fueled a national conversation about the importance of protecting women on college campuses, some have unfortunately used this tragic incident as an opportunity to promote harmful, anti-Black rhetoric, which ultimately criminalizes and perpetuates violence toward residents of West Harlem.
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2019-12-03T05:38:18.348Z
The “Red Summer” of 1919 was marked by extreme racial violence, where white supremacists murdered and terrorized hundreds of black individuals across the United States. The Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery’s current exhibition, “1919: Black Water,” homes in on one of these homicides with paintings and sculptures by artist Torkwase Dyson.
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2019-11-20T16:39:42.877Z
Origami cranes, a cappella and beatboxing, powerful performances: These are just a few of the artistic delights that greeted students in attendance at Columbia’s first International Human Rights Art Festival.
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