A little over an hour before the pageant began, Arnezia Powers’ nerves were at an all-time high. The anticipation of the moment she had been working towards for months was here.
She was juxtaposed...
Starting a year off with a new executive board, new faces and new ideas, the Black Student Union has made it the mission to show EIU's campus that BSU is back.
Over the last few school years, the...
The transition from a school or neighborhood full of people who look just like you to a PWI, predominantly white institution, in a rural town can be difficult and a bit of a culture shock for African American...
Christina Holman, Campus Events Junior Editor
• February 3, 2023
To start off Black History Month, the Black Student Union, BSU, hosted Black History Bingo . The event took place at late night pizza in Thomas Dining Hall from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.
The event included...
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...
Five Eastern students are competing in the 50th anniversary Ms. Black EIU pageant Saturday night in the Grand Ballroom.
The 2022 Ms. Black EIU scholarship pageant will be in the Grand Ballroom in the...
Eastern’s is celebrating Black History Month by having African American Heritage Month with events throughout February.
The first event is Black Lives Matter Speaker Series: Bias in Professionalism...
As 2021 comes to a close, the staff of The Daily Eastern News invites you to look back at the year through our lens.
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The 2021 Homecoming King Jeremiah Boyd-Johnson, a senior from Chicago, Ill., is majoring in political science with a minor in pre-law studies. Boyd-Johnson is involved in many organizations on campus.
“These...
Ryan Meyer, Multimedia Reporter
• November 8, 2021
Two teams competed during Battle of the Aux, an event put on by Eastern’s Black Student Union on Tuesday night.
The competition, which took place in the 7th St. Underground, featured two teams of...
Bre Celestin, Cultural and Campus Reporter
• October 23, 2019
The Black Student Union continued its week by hosting a mental health awareness forum in the Lumpkin Auditorium Tuesday night.
BSU President Jay Caver and other executive board members presented a slide...
Eastern's Black Student Union kicked off its BSU week by hosting an open mic night in Seventh Street Underground of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Monday night.
Eastern students came to present...
