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BSU to host spirit week

BSU to host spirit week

Cam'ron Hardy, News Editor February 21, 2023

Eastern’s Black Student Union will be hosting a spirit week. On Monday, there was a black celebrity day in which students would be able to dress like famous black celebrities. On Tuesday, students...

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Two Dudes Talk Movies Ep. 20: Hidden Figures

Drew Coffey and Cam'ron Hardy February 18, 2023

Cam and Drew discuss the 2017 drama/historical film, Hidden Figures.

Members of the Red Cross Julie Bly and Tara Fields presented information on Sickle Cell disease as part of African American Heritage Month Monday.

Sickle cell presentation informs students to donate blood

Cam'ron Hardy, News Editor February 6, 2023

With the blood drive scheduled for Friday, there was a sickle cell presentation presentenced by American Red Cross. The event took place from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Charleston-Mattoon room in the Martin...

Kyla Moton is a junior English major and can be reached at 217-581-2812.

COLUMN: Is the school system fighting against us?

Kyla Moton, Columnist February 5, 2023

We aren’t even a full week into Black History Month and there is already a push to keep black history out of our schools for whatever reason. School should be a place of refuge for our children. It...

Meet the Greeks took place Sept. 10.

NPHC provides a space for Black students at Eastern

Cam'ron Hardy, News Editor February 1, 2023

The National Pan-Hellenic Council, NPHC, was founded May 10, 1930, and has been nicknamed the Divine Nine, or D9, which is a collection of nine Black fraternities and sororities. It was founded at Howard...

Crystal Valentine, the guest speaker for the Poetry-ish Women’s History Month event, reads her poem about how the Kardashian family culturally appropiate Black women on Thursday night in Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Events themed ‘Black Resilience’ to celebrate Black history

Cam'ron Hardy, News Editor February 1, 2023

With Black History Month here, clubs and organizations at Eastern will be hosting multiple events to honor and celebrate the month catering to this year's theme Black Resilience. On Thursday, a Lecture...

Members from Team 2 from the Battle of The Aux, hosted by the Black Student Union, sing and dance to “The Climb” by Miley Cyrus on Monday night in 7th Street Underground in the Martin Luther King Jr. Union. The teams competed in genres including: country, hip-hop rap, gospel, rock, and reggae.

BSU helps students express themselves among like minded individuals

Cam'ron Hardy, News Editor February 1, 2023

Before coming to Eastern at the beginning of the Fall 2022-2023 semester and becoming the vice president of the Black Student Union, BSU, RJ Shields, a senior criminal justice major, was the social events...

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