Diversity & Inclusion
UMW NAACP Chapter Set to ‘Make Waves’
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Retired NBA Player Scores with Black History Keynote
It was a game-changing moment for Etan Thomas. Pulled over by the police, he sat silently on the road as an officer fixated on him. The policeman’s fingertips hovered over his holster, ready to grab his gun, while his partners …
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Image of Love: Wedding Photo a UMW Instagram Sensation
Evan Smallwood ’15 was nervous. He’d tried on six different sweaters but nothing seemed right. He paced as he dressed, peering every few minutes out his Russell Hall window to check for his date. Just as he’d settled on a …
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Teacher of the Year Shares Mission of Equity at UMW
Rodney Robinson was inspired to become a teacher because of his mother. Growing up in rural Virginia, segregation and poverty hindered her own education, but it didn’t stop her from finding her calling teaching young children in her home daycare. …
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Chavis to Deliver Keynote Address for UMW’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
In 1961, Benjamin Chavis Jr., tired of reading tattered books, boldly marched into the whites-only library in Oxford, North Carolina. The young teen, already a NAACP member, was promptly asked to leave; instead, he stood his ground. A civil rights …
