“Still fighting”: Black UMD students add their voices to protests against police brutality
“I’m exhausted that in the year 2020, black people, we’re still fighting to prove that our lives matter,” one student said.
How #BlackLivesMatter was hijacked by black squares and selfies
Black squares clogged the tag's feed, defeating its original purpose.
Here’s what I learned from 3 years of writing opinion columns
Writing weekly opinion columns taught me about activism and social justice.
UMD grads were hopeful about this year’s collective bargaining bill. Then, COVID-19 hit.
The legislation would have allowed graduate student workers to unionize legally.
The revolution will never be voted in
America's electoral system is built on inequities. It's not the way to fix them.
UMD graduate students demonstrate in solidarity with strikers at UC-Santa Cruz
They're lobbying for unionization rights for graduate workers at this university.
Hagerstown Hall has free pads and tampons. Students want other UMD dorms to follow suit.
So far, a petition supporting the cause has garnered over 450 signatures.
UMD’s undocumented student coordinator will leave after rejecting new contract
The administration proposed broadening her role to include a wider scope of responsibilities.
Student activists should use Makerspaces. UMD should make them more visible.
Makerspaces could be activist resources if UMD advertised them better.
Second part of UMD Black History Month talk focuses on self-advocacy, intersectionality
MICA and this university’s diversity and inclusion office ran the event series.