On February 21st, The Griot Institute welcomed Iyana Ife as a speaker for one of the spring series talks. Ayana Ife is a modest fashion designer with over fifteen years of experience dressing women of …
Exploring Black Lives & Cultures: T. Oliver Reid, Oklahoma, and the Nature of Joy
Author’s Note: Each academic year, the Griot Institute identifies a question or issue of interest that’s central to the continued study of Black lives and cultures and develops a series of …
Ayana Ife Workshop 🐉
On February 27th, I attended a very engaging and uplifting vision board workshop with Modest Fashion Designer and Activist Ayana Ife. Ife has been dressing women of all sizes for over 15 years, with …
Showcasing and Embracing Blackness: A Reflection on Black Arts Fest and the Thirteenth
Ambiguous six-word title are the only words given to the event in the Bucknellian cover above. No story accompaniment on March 1 issue On February 23, 2024, the Bucknell Black Student Union (BSU) …
Ayana Ife: “The Joy in Being Your Own Hero” 👑
Ayana Ife is a fashion designer who creates modest clothing for underserved women, helping them feel beautiful and comfortable in styles that empower and represent their values. She aims to find …
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Film Screening: Brown vs Board of Education: Integration of Schools in Drew, Mississippi 🎥
This is the first in a 4- series movie screening. My elders always told me: “Education is one thing no one can take away from you.”Unfortunately, this was one of the things that the black residents …