The Claremont chapter of The Links Incorporated, one of the nation’s oldest and largest volunteer service organizations, has partnered with the Bronco Care Basic Needs initiative to support students’ academic success and wellbeing. Members of the chapter volunteered at the…
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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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