The location of this university was moved from its planned site in Palos Verdes in large part to give higher education access to communities ravaged by the 1965 Watts Rebellion. The university commemorated the 50th anniversary of that event in 2005 with a year-long exhibit that included an oral history project. Saying that even a […]
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Black History Month Part II: Sacred Music, Black Business and the Other Underground Railroad
csudhbulletin February 19, 2020 0 COMMENTSBy Taylor HelmesAssistant News Editor Black History Month is commemorated at college campuses across the country, but at CSUDH it has even more significance. Originally planned to be in Palos Verdes, former California Gov. Pat Brown opted to move the campus to its present location in order to give people in the socio-economically challenged communities […]
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By Monique Davis, Staff Reporter The public university with the largest percentage of Black students in California now has an honors society named after one of the largest names in Black, and American, history: the W.E.B. Dubois Honors Society, the first on the West Coast. The first interest meeting for CSUDH’s chapter is today at […]
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Dr. Donna Nicol is chair of the Africana Studies Department. Photo courtesy of csudh.news.com. By Tristin Taylor, Staff Writer Though Black History month officially came to a close the last day of February, at least one CSUDH professor was determined to remind listeners that the fight for equal educational […]
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