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WFU’s Slavery, Race and Memory Project holding spring lecture
January 25, 2022 | Events, Top Stories, Valuing Diversity
Dorothy A. Brown, an Emory University professor of law, will deliver the Wake Forest University Slavery, Race and Memory Project’s annual spring lecture at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 1.
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Center studying the African American experience hires assistant director
November 1, 2021 | Staff, Top Stories, Valuing Diversity
A woman who hopes to bridge the gap between academia and the community and has a passion for contributing to the advancement of Black people has been hired as the new assistant director of the Center for Research, Engagement and Collaboration in African American Life, or RECAAL.
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Developing creative business ideas for post-pandemic Winston-Salem
April 5, 2021 | Community, Events, Top Stories, Valuing Diversity
Wake Forest University and NEW INC are hosting a special workshop where participants can level-up their skills while also coming together to imagine post-pandemic creative business ideas for the Winston-Salem community.
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“Explorations of Self: Black Portraiture” to open in Hanes Gallery
September 2, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Valuing Diversity
“Explorations of Self: Black Portraiture from the Cochran Collection” will open at Wake Forest University’s Hanes Gallery on Sept. 21 and run through March 28. Planned programming will include artist talks, group discussions and community outreach. Details will be announced as they are finalized. Although […]
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“We Cannot Forget”
February 25, 2020 | Community in Progress, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories, Valuing Diversity
At 3 p.m. on Feb. 23, about 225 people gathered at the Millennium Center in downtown Winston-Salem for a vigil commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Winston-Salem sit-in. Organized by Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State universities, the event featured remarks by Wake Forest President Nathan O. Hatch and Winston-Salem State Chancellor Elwood L. Robinson, a keynote address by WFU Dean of the School of Divinity Jonathan L. Walton and music by The WSSU Singing Rams.
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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 University to celebrate, honor first African American women to integrate residence halls
January 29, 2020 | Alumni, Community in Progress, Top Stories, Valuing Diversity
On Feb. 1, Beth Norbrey Hopkins and four other African American women will talk candidly about their experiences at Wake Forest in the early 1970s. The 9 a.m. panel discussion in Brendle Recital Hall commemorates the 50-year anniversary of the integration of women’s residence halls at Wake Forest.
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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’s engineering program builds upon a culture of inclusivity
June 18, 2019 | Community in Progress, Faculty, Top Stories, Valuing Diversity
As its first group of engineering students declared their major this year, Wake Forest University achieved something that few, if any, programs have anywhere – a student body that more accurately represents the U.S. population.
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Reckoning with racism
February 8, 2019 | Alumni, President, Pro Humanitate, Provost, Student, Top Stories, Valuing Diversity
This week, college and university administrators across the country have been combing through old yearbooks as public officials have come under fire for racist imagery and offensive photos in back issues.
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