In university, you are used to your professor at the front of a classroom—telling you what to do, grading you, and mentoring you, depending on how comfortable you feel with them. This dynamic, rooted in colonial forms of education, often… Read moreNew Faculty Welcome Lunch
The blue skies of Bucknell on September 10th slowly darkened as white stars exploded across the campus’ canvas, leaving trails of red. Patriotism had struck Bucknell’s bubble, infecting students, professors, and locals of Lewisburg with murmurs of the Presidential Debate… Read morePower & Politics: Black Political Engagement and the 2024 Election
On September 7th, the Griot Institute welcomed Bucknellians and friends to the new school year with the annual Griot Institute Opening Celebration. Kicking off the Griot’s season with a performance from the first-year pre-orientation group, Arts First, the new students… Read moreGriot Institute Opening Celebration
“No matter what you do to us, you could never take my joy away from me.” In honor of Black Women’s History events, the film screening in my mother’s garden was organized. Here is a recap! The film was a… Read moreFilm Review: “In My Mother’s Garden”
The Griot Institute recently hosted a film screening at the Campus Theatre in our downtown Lewisburg. The Pieces I Am is a documentary about renowned Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. In the documentary, Toni Morrison, alongside respectable figures… Read moreThe Pieces I am: Campus Theatre Film Screening
LaToya Hobbs is an artist, wife, and mother of two from Little Rock, AR, currently living and working in Baltimore, MD. Her exhibition record includes national and internation venues, her work is housed in private and public collections, and she… Read moreLaToya Hobbs – “An Embodiment of Joy, Rest and Renewal”
