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Associate professor Nia Nunn works with the Community Unity Music Education Program in 2017. She is planning a Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde birthday celebration Feb. 18 at Southside Community Center.

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...

Ute Ritz-Deutch from Amnesty International reads an excerpt from "I am Jazz" as a part of banned book week Sept. 24 at the Handwerker Gallery.

Banned Books Week read-out celebrates the late Toni Morrison

By Alex Hartzog, Staff Writer September 25, 2019
The Banned Books Week read-out took place from 6 to 7 p.m. Sept 24 in the Handwerker Gallery. Attendees read books that have been banned.
After finding a passion for literature that highlights issues of racial identity, Derek Adams, assistant professor in the Department of English strives to create a safe space for students of color in his own classroom at Ithaca College.

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.
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