BriAuna Keys is a sprinter for NKU women’s track and field team. The senior accounting and business information systems double major aspires to be a certified public accountant for a public accounting...
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...
Homecoming week is a time that allows NKU to celebrate what it means to be a Norse.
Kim Vance, director of fraternity and sorority life, recalled that during her undergraduate years, homecoming used...
Tremendous things happen when you step away from the safe and familiar. The interdisciplinary format of the honors college encourages students to think beyond their majors, a test that can lead to great...
