After immigrating to the United States, Dr. Emeritus Ssendi Ssensalo worked as a professor at California State University, Long Beach for 40 years. “Where I was born…my education and how my experiences within this particular culture prepared me to navigate through a completely different culture and a completely different environment,” Ssensalo said. The Africana Studies Department[Read More…]
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CSULB hosts panel to discuss to discuss discrimination in the U.S.
A student stands at the front of a silent room, filled with so much emotion that he is unable to speak. The Finding Freedom in the Land of the Free panel discussion, held Thursday evening in the Liberal Arts 2 building, began with guest speaker Maulana Karenga from the African[Read More…]
MLK celebration speakers urge college students to engage in human rights activism
A celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. took place on Tuesday afternoon in the Beach Auditorium, and a panel followed in the evening. The celebration focused on the Selma-Montgomery marches, which were led in part by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The marches began in January 1965 and aimed[Read More…]
Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration speakers urge college students to engage in human rights activism
In conjunction with Associated Students Inc. and Beach Pride, black faculty and staff members at California State University, Long Beach hosted a celebration in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Tuesday. “If you think to yourself ‘my vote doesn’t really count for anything,’ shame on you,” President of[Read More…]