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Iowa State students focused on continuing difficult conversations while discussing Black History Month.

Learning and growth during Black History Month

Zane Charter
January 31, 2022
January 15, 2022, marks the day Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 93 years old.

Remembering Martin Luther King: “An extremist for love”

Zane Charter
January 17, 2022
Black history in America is a long and loaded history that is specifically magnified during the month of February, which is identified as Black History Month. 

Celebrating Black History Month

Madison Mason
January 31, 2021
Letter writer Aaron Kusmec evaluates the notion of respect in response concerning the American flag. 

Letter: Respect is a relationship, even with the flag

Aaron Kusmec
July 30, 2020
Letter writer and Iowa State graduate student Ty Turner implores others to produce an environment where we can coexist and be free. 

Letter: Help me make America free

Ty Turner
July 16, 2020
The 2016 film "I Am Not Your Negro" is based upon the unfinished novel “Remember This House'' by author James Baldwin. The film is about the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. and explores the continued peril America faces from institutionalized racism.

Parks Library screens the film “I am Not Your Negro” in honor of Black History Month

Loretta Mcgraw
February 13, 2020
Audience members were invited to ask panelists questions during an open question and answer segment.

White fragility lecturer speaks to Ames community members

Mike Brown
March 10, 2019
Phyllis Harris, an ISU student in pursuit of her doctorate in human development and family studies, covers a Catt Hall brick embellished with her mother's name in protest of the recent controversy. Harris plans to keep recovering the brick if the cover is removed.

Retrospective: What fueled the legacy of black leadership at Iowa State?

Whitney Mason
January 31, 2019
Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where he delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech during the Aug. 28, 1963, march on Washington, D.C.

The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: An Iowa State perspective

Mike Brown
January 17, 2019
Ames City Hall.

March commemorating the 50 year anniversary of the Fair Housing Act set for Monday

Ashtyn Perrin
April 22, 2018
Written by the staff writers for the student newspapers, the article states how  student journalists covered the multiple active demonstrations on campus the day after King's assassination in Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

50 years pass since MLK assassination, a look back at the Daily’s coverage

Whitney Mason
April 4, 2018
Jeffrey Burnette, assistant professor of economics at the Rochester Institute of Technology, presents at the American Indian Symposium on March 26 in the Cardinal Room of the Memorial Union.

Collaboration with Native populations and universities: a panel discussion

Mike Brown
March 26, 2018
An exhibit in the National Civil Rights Museum illuminates Martin Luther King Jr.'s signature on a prison wall. The museum, which is housed at the Lorraine Motel, where King was shot, is located in Memphis, Tennessee.

Cyclones honor MLK through Twitter

Trevor Knabach
January 15, 2018
US civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior waves to supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963 on the Mall in Washington DC during the March on Washington. 

Campanile concert kicks off Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration

Whitney Mason
January 9, 2018
Anne Clifford speaks to students and staff at the Memorial Union on Sept. 27. Clifford presented the perspectives of both the Catholic and Islamic religion on various topics. 

Clifford gives King-inspired lecture on racism and catholic teaching

Whitney Mason
November 6, 2017
Sonny Ramaswamy will visit campus Oct. 9 for a campus interview and open forum. He holds a doctorate in entomology and is director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture in Washington D.C.

First finalist for Iowa State president announced

Danielle Gehr
October 8, 2017
Lee Mun Wah began his interactive session on diversity by walking silently around the room looking at the audience members. Mun Wah asks an audience member how he felt when he was walking around silently. The session was held in the Sun room of the Memorial Union on Jan. 31.

Lecturer emphasizes dangers of assumptions at diversity session

Leslie Espinoza
January 31, 2017

Iowa State to celebrate MLK through lecture

Eric Wirth
January 21, 2016
James Bailey, CEO of Operation Hope and keynote speaker at the Martin Luther King Jr. 2015 Legacy Convocation, gives a speech about Iowa's contribution to the civil rights movement. The 2015 Legacy Convocation took place Jan. 22 in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union.

City of Ames to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Ashley Green
January 15, 2016
Playboy will not be featuring nudity in their magazine anymore starting with their March 2016 issue.

Playboy no longer to feature nudity

Dalton Gackle
October 20, 2015

Martin Luther King Jr. legacy series begins

Danielle Ferguson
January 14, 2015
The Second Amendment states: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

Snell: How to be an American: Support the Second Amendment too

Barry Snell
April 24, 2012

Morrison-Reed to speak on campus

Katelynn Mccollough
January 29, 2012
Assistant professors Tyson Marsh and Nana Osei-Kofi dance with Bridges to Harmony during the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Celebration on Thursday, Jan. 19, in the Great Hall in the Memorial Union. This event is to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King.  

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January 19, 2012
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