The “White Cultural Club” (WCC) is a new group that has emerged during the recent rejuvenation of ethnic and racial solidarity on our campus. Though they are not yet formally recognized by the University, the WCC is seeking approval and setting up secret meetings to promote its agenda. One of the points highlighted in its mission statement is to change
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We, members of the Cadet Campaign, and students of Syracuse University, are outraged about the offensive, racial undertones of The Kumquat’s “The Kumquacracy Forum” that occurred on the night of April 14 in Maxwell Auditorium. In The Kumquat’s version of a satirical Student Association debate a member of The Kumquat, a Caucasian male, “mock-debated” alongside real candidates running for Student
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Last August, the hashtag “#BlackLivesMatter” was created to start a dialogue about the value of Black lives in America during the height of the Mike Brown incident that occurred in Ferguson, Missouri. The main objective of the trend was to express how the lives of Black men and women in this country are treated significantly different than the lives of
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Dear Black Voice Family, Happy New Year! Although we are over 40 days into 2015, it is never too late to start fresh and make a change in your lifestyle for the better. Even if you have already given into those old 2014 habits, continue to push yourself to renew and redirect your energy to achieve all of the plans
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The assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, though tragic and earth-shaking, gave birth to what was known as the “Artistic Sister of the Black Power Movement.” Led by the late Poet, Playwright and Activist, Amiri Baraka, The Black Arts Movement began to take form in Harlem during the mid-1960s. It started as a literary movement and later grew to include
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W.E.B. Du Bois once said “The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery.” Although Du Bois was not referring to the chattel slavery that is minimally discussed in our school textbooks, he was suggesting that Black Americans in the United States have yet to experience true freedom because of institutionalized and
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(This editor’s note is a guest column written by former editor-in-chief, Anthony Buissereth ’03.) Black people have built a rich legacy to support our safe passage to and through this institution over many years. Whether it was a walkout to protest a speech by George Wallace or forming groups to express our story through word, song and dance or
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