News
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June 30, 2020
‘Beauty Alone’ is a Reason to Read Q-INEQ-INE is a new student-run magazine highlights perspectives from the Penn LGTBQ+ community. A 2020 Sachs grants recipient; Q-INE includes poetry, essays, and artwork. Founder Acevedo says, “the magazine represents the diverse student body that we talk about at Penn. If we hope to train the cream of the crop, we have to get into the weeds about what diversity actually means.”
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June 29, 2020
Charles L. Howard Named Penn’s Vice President for Social Equity and CommunityAs Vice President for Social Equity and Community, Howard will lead programs and initiatives that promote and support communication, collaboration, research, and innovative programming within the Penn community that deepen awareness and help to advance the University’s mission of fostering social equity, diversity, and inclusion.
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June 22, 2020
The 2020 Summer Reading ListRecommendations from Penn faculty and staff, ranging from works that touch on racial justice to ones that explore stories of the “scientist hero.”
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June 22, 2020
Juneteenth: A Day for Reflection, Conversation, and LearningThis year marked the 155th anniversary of the date when enslaved people in Texas finally received word that President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation two-and-a-half years earlier. Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day; is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States.
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June 22, 2020
Historian Mary Frances Berry Responds to the George Floyd ProtestsMary Frances professor of American Social Thought and professor of history and Africana studies, speaks with Penn Today about protesting injustice, pushing for change, and the history of African American civil rights. America is in mourning. Across the country, people grieve for George Floyd, who died on May 25. Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man and father. As Floyd lay handcuffed, face down in the street, a police officer pressed a knee into Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes until the man finally ceased breathing.