The Ithacan

Commentary: The story behind ‘Black Girls Don’t Get Love’

By Eden Strachan • April 27, 2022

The goal of “Black Girls Don’t Get Love” is to use storytelling to foster community among women and girls of color.

Event to honor two iconic black female writers

By Kara Bowen • February 12, 2020

Ithaca College students, professors and community members will contribute their writing and performance arts to celebrate two of the most influential black female writers in the literary canon, Toni Morrison...

Commentary: How to write in a time of resistance

By Jaime Warburton • February 1, 2017

Seek out the writing of those you have not yet listened to, and encourage others, even those not your friends, to do the same.

Activist Gloria Joseph to visit IC and discuss poet Audre Lorde

By Colette Piasecki-Masters, Contributing Writer • September 21, 2016

Ithaca College’s Women and Gender Studies Program will host Gloria Joseph, professor emerita of Africana Studies at Hampshire College and partner of the late Audre Lorde, to discuss the poet’s life.

Ithaca College professor provides safe space for students of color

By Ana Borruto, Staff Writer • April 3, 2016

Sitting on Derek Adams’ desk in the Muller Faculty Center is a copy of Percival Everett’s novel “I Am Not Sidney Poitier,” a story about a character who is consistently mistaken for Academy Award–winning actor Sidney Poitier. The character decides to travel the U.S. and discover who he is so people will stop labelling him as someone he is not.