Abdul Kooistra is a redshirt senior defender on NKU’s men’s soccer team, who hails from Madison, Wisconsin. Kooistra studies communications and is seeking a minor in marketing. Kooistra has played...
In 1925, historian, journalist and author Dr. Carter G. Woodson created the idea for the first Negro History Week—a celebration of experiences and accomplishments of African-Americans, said Dr. Eric...
From deciding to attend a university over 5,000 miles away from her home in Lagos, Nigeria, to the interdisciplinary challenges she took head on, Onyinye Uwolloh is no stranger to taking risks.
The...
Kane Mitten, Assistant Arts & Life Editor
• February 6, 2019
Carlous Yates, NKU’s new director of African American Student Initiatives (AASI) office, is fiercely passionate about helping students—perhaps because he’s still a student himself.
During...
NKU dance major Lavette Patterson found herself playing the role of Margaret Garner, a slave that lived on a Boone County plantation in the mid-1800s, last semester during Dr. Joan Ferrante’s documentary...
We were 13 and he had a childlike curiosity about my Blackness. He’d trace my skin and was certain it felt different, not wrong, just different. Yet, I had a cowardly liking for his Whiteness, a liking...
My brown skin I’m in
Ain’t it nice
So many shades of beauty
So smooth and so much melanin
My brown skin ain’t just something for your eyes to fancy
See
There’s so much behind this pretty...
Arnie Slaughter was recently named the recipient of the Faculty/Staff Strongest Influence Award by NKU alumni, and he’s worked hard to achieve it.
While winning the award was certainly not his goal...
I
Am not
A trend
I am not
the music you listen to
the clothes you buy
the hair you wear
the food you eat
the language you speak
I am not the elephant
in the room
the butt of the joke
the...
Stephen Wilder, Managing/Sports editor
• February 21, 2013
Before some Americans evolved into civilized human beings, certain people had to deal with segregation and were held back from reaching their true potential.
However, the laws did not stop African Americans...
Stephen Wilder, Sports features editor
• February 22, 2012
The Northern Kentucky University’s Campus Recreation Center sponsored its third annual Commemorative All-Star Wiffle Ball Game Feb. 15 to commemorate Black History Month and Negro League Baseball.
NKU...
The taboo topic of mental health will be brought to the forefront during a special Black History Month presentation sponsored by the Office of African-American Student Affairs and Northern Kentucky University.
Author,...
