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Eula L. Williams and Luester Ward read along from a page in Kendi’s book “How to Be an Antiracist” Thursday afternoon in the Alachua County Library District Headquarters in downtown Gainesville.
Ibram X. Kendi, author and former assistant professor of African American History at the University of Florida, speaks alongside Mayor Lauren Poe Thursday to an audience of about 250 people in the Alachua County Library District Headquarters in downtown Gainesville. Kendi spoke about racism throughout the country and answered questions from Mayor Poe and the audience.
Ibram X. Kendi spoke about dismantling oppressive systems, the role of the church in racism and teaching African American history in Alachua County Public Schools — all while holding his 3-year-old baby in his arms.
Leaders from around Florida met Tuesday afternoon to discuss the state’s budding industry: cannabis.
Race is not real, Christopher Lebron said. It’s a way for people to consider themselves better than others.
Does UF Student Government have enough time to pass resolutions? Senators only have three school weeks left to do so.
Tick, tick, tick, went the sound of a sewing machine in a small room filled with tables covered with scattered, patterned multicolored fabrics, pins, stencils and felt letters.
English-speaking children in U.S. hospitals may take Harry Potter and National Geographic Kids for granted. But for Spanish-speaking patients at UF Health Shands Hospital, a book in their native language is hard to come by.
To those who knew him, going to the library on the Friday night of UF Homecoming wasn’t unusual for Amin Taghikhani.
Related: Read about the life of Amin Taghikhani.
Halloween is finally over.
It’s exam season at UF. Students are crowding the libraries and voraciously consuming books and study guides to prepare for the big day. Some of these students pull all-nighters to study, forgoing sleep and staying up all night to prepare. I’m here to tell you that not only are all-nighters a poor method of studying, but that there are much better options available.
As a Florida resident, the impacts of climate change on my immediate environment are not lost on me. As an avid bird watcher, the impacts of climate change on the local bird communities are also not lost on me. One of the potential effects of climate change is an increased intensity of natural disasters. In 2016, Hurricane Matthew devastated Florida’s coastline, and I experienced firsthand the changing sand and vegetation composition. Shorebirds, such as terns, were heavily affected because their breeding grounds are on these beaches.
You have three midterms next Tuesday, you’re three days late on rent and your mom won’t stop calling you about that post you made on Instagram last Saturday night.
There was not an empty seat in the room, yet people continued to file in. The air buzzed with excited chatter then settled to a quiet calm. Only the turn of a page and a single voice broke the silence.
Olivia Dunbar, a 20-year-old computer engineering junior at UF, votes Tuesday in the fall student government election at the Marston Library.
Inspire Party’s newly won Senate seats are safe.
The Civic Media Center hosted its first open mic of the semester last week, focusing on Afrofuturism.
How is it possible to feel alone in a crowd? Among 50,000 other students, I thought I’d arrive on campus and surely find my place shortly thereafter. How could I not with such a massive pool of students and clubs? I had seen cliques form as early as Preview. A few months in, and it still hadn’t happened to me.
The weather is still unbearable. You feel a gentle breeze here and there, but Mother Nature lied about the fall season — or at least we did something to mess it up. Either way, it’s hot, you’re sweaty and the walk from the Reitz Union to Library West isn’t making things easier.
Solutions by The State News
