The YWCA of Greater Lafayette is sponsoring a racial justice film series that will offer opportunities for learning and discussion. The 2007 version of Hairspray will kick off the YWCAs new Black and White Movies Racial Justice Film Series at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 8.Read More...
JACH News Service. The Lafayette branch of the NAACP is working to register 50 members to re-certify its group with the national organization and has scheduled its first community-wide event. The NAACP will host a banquet to kick off Black History Month.Read More...
Purdue University will begin collecting non-food
items at campus drop-off points beginning Monday (Dec. 8) for the
annual Boilers Care-and-Share drive as part of
the 2009 Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. Collection boxes will be placed
in university buildings through Jan. 14.Read More...
The Lafayette Ledger will hold a bi-partisan Candidate's Forum on Thursday, October 30th at 6:30 p.m. at Whole Truth Church, 901 S. 19th St. The forum will allow each candidate to give an introduction, then take questions about local issues. The event is open to all candidates.
A new study confirms that discrimination is a stress factor that is
related to obesity, but surprisingly, this is most true among ethnic
white groups and not blacks or Hispanics.Read More...
The YWCA Womens Cancer Program and the Minority Health Coalition of Tippecanoe County will host a free educational event and luncheon from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 15, at the YWCA, 605 N. 6th Street, Lafayette. The doors open at 11:45 a.m. Read More...
A recent poll suggested that Barack Obama could lose up to two percent points in the upcoming vote because of his race. That, the role Sarah Palin's gender is playing and John McCain's age will be examined during a discussion at 7 p.m. Thur., Oct. 16 at Ivy Tech Community College. Read More...
The organization Get Real About Discrimination (GRAD) announced recently that it will be meeting every Friday during the school year in the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering, Room 1021. Get Real About Discriminations (GRAD) sole activity is sponsoring a weekly support group.Read More...
Four performing arts ensembles from Purdue University's Black Cultural Center on Dec. 5 will dramatize what they learned during a study of New Orleans' African-American art and culture after Hurricane Katrina. The Cultural Arts Festival " is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Loeb Playhouse.Read More...
Purdue University's Latino Cultural Center will celebrate the Mexican
and historical indigenous Aztec holiday Da de los Muertos, or Day of
the Dead, with crafts, music and food from 4-7 p.m. Oct. 31 at Ivy Tech
Community College, 3101 S. Creasy Lane.Read More...
Purdue University Galleries is presenting a comprehensive exhibition of
contemporary Latino art that examines issues of immigration. "Humanigration: The Crdenas Latino
Collection," will be presented Oct. 27 to Dec. 7.Read More...
Itanza Wright, a freshman majoring in aeronautical and astronautic engineering, is years winner of the Helen Bass Williams Scholarship. The Helen Bass Williams Scholarship is awarded to a student entering his/her freshman year at Purdues West Lafayette campus. Read More...
Nationally known ethnic studies historian and educator Ronald Takaki will be the keynote speaker for Latino Heritage Month at 7 p.m. Oct. 7 in Purdue University's Stewart Center. Takaki, professor emeritus of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley, wilRead More...
Regional and state officials and the Indianapolis Mexican Consul will participate in the inaugural Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month dinner and dance at the Purdue Memorial Union's North and South ballrooms. Read More...
