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Wake Forest apologizes for benefitting from enslaved people
February 20, 2020 | Community in Progress, Events, Top Stories
Each February, the Wake Forest University community gathers for Founders’ Day Convocation to observe the founding of the University in 1834. At this year’s event, Wake Forest President Nathan O. Hatch acknowledged the University’s participation in the institution of slavery. He offered an apology for how Wake Forest benefitted from the labor and sale of enslaved people.
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Building momentum, sustaining commitment: Checking in with the Slavery, Race and Memory Project
February 13, 2020 | Community in Progress, Events, Speakers, Top Stories
What can we learn from the past? Wake Forest University legal scholar and Associate Provost Kami Chavis explains, “If you want to have a transformative institutional change, you have to begin examining the past and the root causes of underlying issues to know what you need to do in the future.” Chavis is also co-chair of the Steering Committee of Wake Forest’s Slavery, Race and Memory Project.
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Honoring ‘Strength, Resolve and Legacy’
February 6, 2020 | Admissions, Alumni, Community in Progress, Events, Top Stories, Valuing Diversity
When they moved into a women’s residence hall in 1969, Beth Norbrey Hopkins and Deborah Graves McFarlane simply wanted to obtain a good education and weren’t thinking about making history as the first African American women to come to Wake Forest as resident students. But they did.
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Wake Forest to host conversation with NBA All-Star Kyle Korver
January 24, 2020 | Campus Life, Community in Progress, Events, Top Stories
Wake Forest University will host a moderated conversation between NBA All-Star Kyle Korver and Dean of the School of Divinity Jonathan Walton on Jan. 29 in Wait Chapel at 6 p.m.
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Wake Forest, Winston-Salem State collaborate on 20th MLK event
January 21, 2020 | Community in Progress, Events, Recognition, Speakers, Top Stories
Ibram X. Kendi, a professor of history and international relations and founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, delivered the Martin Luther King Jr. keynote address inside Wait Chapel on Jan. 20.
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WFU’s Hanes Art Gallery to host Robert Motherwell exhibition
January 17, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Events, Top Stories
Wake Forest University’s Hanes Art Gallery is hosting works by American artist Robert Motherwell. “Motherwell: product. placement” opens January 20 and runs through March 29. The exhibition focuses on Motherwell’s collage pieces utilizing everyday materials. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
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WFU and WSSU honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with special events
January 10, 2020 | Events, Faculty, Staff, Student, Top Stories, Valuing Diversity
Wake Forest University and Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) are partnering again this year to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with events during the holiday weekend. The collaboration on the keynote speaker is in its 20th year, marking the longest-running partnership between Wake Forest and WSSU.
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Wake Forest to hold 2019 Lovefeast services
November 26, 2019 | Campus Life, Community, Events, Top Stories
Wake Forest University will hold its annual Lovefeast services in Wait Chapel on Sunday, Dec. 8, at 4:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Lovefeast celebrates the unique traditions of the Moravian community in Winston-Salem.
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2019 Turkeypalooza video highlights
November 23, 2019 | Community, Events, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
Beginning Nov. 17, Wake Forest volunteers will prepare about 350 traditional Thanksgiving meals in Campus Kitchen and deliver them to food-insecure Winston-Salem residents during Turkeypalooza.
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Turkeypalooza 2019 to feed about 350
November 15, 2019 | Community, Events, Pro Humanitate, Student, Top Stories
Beginning Nov. 17, Wake Forest volunteers will prepare about 350 traditional Thanksgiving meals in Campus Kitchen and deliver them to food-insecure Winston-Salem residents during Turkeypalooza.
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