Students and CAPS leaders discussed the mental health of the poor, marginalized and people of color at the Indivisible not Invisible event held Thursday, Jan. 23 at WCU. Through the discussion and exploration of statistics and personal anecdotes, participants helped alleviate the stigma that surrounds mental health in these communities on campus. Coordinated by Alpha […]
MLK keynote speaker addresses equality
January 28, 2020 by
The fight for dignity and equality is still going on, and it can be achieved with non-violence just as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. taught us. This was the message keynote speaker, Dr. Oralene Simmons, preached during WCU celebration of the MLK week. Simmons is a native of western North Carolina and is known for her advocacy […]
WCU Unity March starts weeklong celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.
January 21, 2020 by
The WCU week of celebration for the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. kicked off Monday, Jan. 21 with the Unity March. The march, which is organized annually at WCU by the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, began at 11:30 a.m. outside at the Catafount after a few introductory speakers inside the University Center […]
“Unity is victory and without unity, there is no victory”
January 20, 2017 by
WCU hosted a legendary football coach as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. appreciation week. Herman Boone was the inspiration for the blockbuster, Remember the Titans. Over 250 people were in attendance at the University Center at WCU. Boone became the head football coach at T.C. Williams High School in 1971, in Alexandria, Virginia. […]
MLK keynote speaker talks about education and opportunity
January 23, 2016 by
In 1957, nine black high schoolers integrated Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. On Thursday, Jan. 21, the youngest of these nine, Ms. Carlotta Walls LaNier, came to WCU and spoke to a nearly full room. The program began with a moving poem written and performed by a young man whose stage name is […]
Students should see “Selma”
February 6, 2015 by
Currently in theaters is the exhilarating film that depicts one of the many movements and acts involved in the fight for suffrage and equality. The story covers the three-month period in 1965 when Martin Luther King, Jr. traveled to Selma, Alabama. The purpose of the 54 mile march from Selma to Montgomery was to protest […]
