It’s where the pomp and circumstance of tradition gives way to the jubilation of a cultural heritage celebration. For decades, Cal Poly Pomona graduates have participated in cultural graduation ceremonies, donning specialized sashes, leis and tassels. Dance troupes and drummers…
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Many of them came to Cal Poly Pomona as first-generation college students, not knowing a soul and uncertain about how to navigate the intricacies of a large university. Just two quarters in, Latino and African American first-year male students participating…
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Activist and recent University of Missouri graduate Payton Head will give the Black Heritage keynote address. Head, former president of the Missouri Students Association and an activist in the #ConcernedStudent1950 movement, will give a talk titled “Why All Black Lives…
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Spurred by campus issues and the impact of Proposition 187, a coalition of diverse groups led by Chicano and Latino students demonstrated and marched on the vice president’s office seeking a greater voice two decades ago. That protest opened the…
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An internationally known poet, essayist and playwright whose most recent volume of poetry was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry will speak at Cal Poly Pomona on Monday, April 13. Claudia Rankine, author of “Citizen: An American…
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The African American Student Center is bringing to campus Joanne Bland, a participant in the historic Selma to Montgomery Blood Sunday March in 1965. She will give a university-wide lecture on her experience in Bloody Sunday and as a civil…
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George Takei, the former “Star Trek” actor who has reinvented himself as an Internet celebrity and human-rights activist, will visit Cal Poly Pomona on Tuesday, Feb. 19 to speak about how social media can be used to promote social justice.
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This year’s theme for Black History Month is “The Evolution of Black.” For more information about upcoming events and activities, visit www.dsa.cpp.edu/aasc or contact the African American Student Center at (909) 869-5006.…
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