The W’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Council welcomes Dr. Flonzie Brown Wright to campus for a celebration of DEI Award winners. During the Civil Rights Movement, Wright helped register thousands of voters in Mississippi. She was the first African American female elected official in Mississippi post-Reconstruction and authored the best-selling autobiography Looking Back to Move […]
Come and hear Anastasia C. Curwood talk about the life and experiences of Shirley Chisholm, whose 1972 bid for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party made history and paved the way for further women’s political activism. Curwood is the author of the forthcoming biography, Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics (2023) and […]
Dr. Jon Ignacio Moreno from the Department of Biological Sciences, Alcorn State University, will be giving a presentation in 117 Parkinson Hall on Wed 11 Oct. He will talk about his research into the functioning of mitochondria, the energy-generating organelles of the cell. The talk is titled, ““A crucial step in functional genomics – phenotype […]
