The BSU at Skyline College

The BSU at Skyline College A passionate collective of engaged students concerned about the African-American community at Skyline Community College! Thanks for visiting!

06/17/2019

Eric Adjepong, a Ghanaian-American chef and finalist on “Top Chef,” cooks the meal he was unable to finish on the recent season finale.

07/04/2017

In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech titled “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?,” a call for the promise of liberty be applied equally to all Americans:

“The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn...What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?”

Douglass’s speech emphasized that American slavery and American freedom is a shared history and that the actions of ordinary men and women, demanding freedom, transformed our nation.

Read Douglass’s full speech: bit.ly/2tEWWzH

05/24/2017

An Ivy League student will be graduating with one of the highest accolades after submitting a 10-track rap album for his final thesis, the first to do so in the history of the university. Obasi Shaw wrote the album, titled Liminal Minds in a year. It was awarded the second highest grade in the depar...

05/03/2017

Students at UC Santa Cruz have taken over the administration building Tuesday at the university. More than 100 students have locked themselves inside Kerr Hall. They say they're not leaving until the university meets their demands.

03/04/2017

Sarah Rector was born to Joseph and Rose Rector on March 3, 1902, near Twine, Oklahoma. Her parents had Creek Indian ancestry that allowed the family to receive land as part of the Dawes Allotment Act. Sarah’s original allotment of 160 acres was only evalued at $556.50.

In 1911, her father leased her land to the Devonian Oil Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was just 11 years old when oil driller B.B. Jones found oil on her land. They eventually started producing thousands of gallons a day, and by the age of 18, she was millionaire.

Rector later moved to Kansas City, Missouri and lived in what became known as the Rector Mansion. With her newfound wealth, she went on to acquire a boarding house, bakery, multiple stocks and bonds, and the Busy Bee Cafe in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

03/03/2017

There is an old African proverb that has been passed down from the ancestors through generations of black people that goes like this: “Never trust anyone who lets people put their feet on the couch.”

03/03/2017

"I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat. It felt like Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another shoulder."

Before Rosa Parks, there was a brave girl named Claudette Colvin. The 15-year-old refused to give up her seat on a crowded bus and was among the five women originally included in the federal court case challenging Montgomery's bus segregation law. On December 17, 1956 the Supreme Court determined that bus segregation in Alabama was unconstitutional.

02/26/2017

W.E.B. Du Bois was the first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard University in 1895. He is the author of the widely known book The Souls of Black Folk, published in 1903. The book was an attempt to display the intellect and humanity of African Americans. He is remembered as a civil rights leader in the effort to advance racial equality globally.

02/18/2017

Henrietta Lacks was a poor to***co farmer whose cells changed the medical field forever.

02/01/2017

On this day, The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed by Congress, abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude in America, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865. The joint resolution of both bodies that submitted the amendment to the states for approval was signed by President Abraham Lincoln on February 1, 1865. Ratified on December 6, 1865, it was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil War. The Amendment barred every person from holding slaves or engaging in other forms of involuntary servitude, while the fourteenth and fifteenth constitutional provisions to the amendment only regulated the government.

The Emancipation Proclamation, declared and promulgated by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 during the American Civil War, only freed slaves held in confederate states. Only through the Thirteenth Amendment did emancipation become national policy. The amendment states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

Visit the “Slavery and Freedom” exhibit to view more objects that reflect the nation’s transformation in the fight for African American freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction. http://s.si.edu/2gz7lDR

12/14/2016

Same-day passses will be distributed online instead of in-person, and passes for April become available Jan. 4.

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