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Lecture teaches about the history of voting rights for Black women

March 20, 2021April 14, 2021 Allison Horkey0Tagged Constance Baker Motley, Diane Nash, Fannie Lou Hamer, gunderson lecture, History Department, Ida B. Wells, johns hopkins university, kamala harris, Knudson School of Law, martha jones, Mary Church Terrell, Mary McLeod Bethune, Sara Lampert, shell lecture, society of black alumni, Vanguard, vanguard voting rights lecture, Women's History Month

USD’s History Department and the Knudson School of Law hosted the Vanguard Voting Rights Lecture March 18. The lecture was a joint Shell Lecture, which the History Department usually hosts in the fall, and School of Law’s Gunderson Lecture, in honor of Women’s History Month. The lecturer, Martha Jones, a professor of history and the […]

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Opinion

Editorial: Let’s wait to give a round of applause to Biden on diversity

January 26, 2021April 14, 2021 Editorial Board0Tagged Barack Obama, cabinet, diversity, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, kamala harris, president

President Joe Biden has successfully fulfilled his promise of creating the most diverse White House staff in U.S. history. This is highlighted by the 46th president’s pick for Vice President, Kamala Harris, who is the first women, Black and Asian-American to be Vice President in U.S. history. In addition to this, half of Biden’s cabinet […]

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