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Pitzer BSU’s third Black Flea Market showcases Black creatives and entrepreneurs
The third Black Flea Market, organized by the Pitzer Black Student Union (BSU), took place on Oct. 6 at Pitzer College’s Mounds, featuring student vendors, DJs and local businesses.
Celebrating Black Culture: Pitzer’s BSU hosts Second Black Flea Market
The Pitzer Black Student Union (BSU) Black Flea Market was held on Feb. 2, following its inaugural event in October. Located at Pitzer College, the market showcased a rich display of vibrant clothes, beauty products and handmade jewelry sold by Black-owned local vendors as well as student vendors. Music and dancing created a lively atmosphere.
‘A family away from home’: A look into Black Student Unions across the 5Cs
Black Student Unions across the 5Cs serve as a space for Black students to find community during their time in Claremont. Student leaders from Harvey Mudd College, Claremont McKenna College (CMC), Scripps College and Pomona College told TSL about their goals for their respective organizations. Black Lives at Mudd Black
In the ’70s, 5Cs dismissed student requests for increased Black enrollment
In the 1960s, Black Students in Claremont were promised increased enrollment. 5C enrollment went back on their commitment, writes Averi Sullivan PO ’23.
Death of BSC births OBSA and 5C Black Studies Department
Ten years after its creation, the Black Studies Center was dissolved, leaving the Office of Black Student Affairs and the Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies in its place, writes Averi Sullivan PO ’23.
5C Black student organizations continue uplifting student experiences
Looking back on their journeys leading 5C Black student organizations, Paris Primm PZ ’22 and Sydney Catherine Jackson SC ’23 affirm the need for more institutional support.
Editor’s note about “Illuminating 5C Black legacies”
To contribute to Black History Month this year, TSL is doing what we do best: bringing stories into the light. In this case, our news team has spent weeks and, in some cases, months, trawling through archives at Honnold Mudd and Denison libraries, examining old copies of TSL and the Claremont Collegian and gathering oral accounts from alumni who were on campus throughout pivotal parts of the struggle for justice, representation and equity.
Before Inside-Out and PAYS, Danny Wilks PO ’71 brought activism into the community
Teaching partnerships between incarcerated people in California and the 5Cs might seem like a recent development. But in the late 1960s, student members of Pomona College’s Black Studies Center developed an educational program for prisoners in Chino, led by BSU founder Danny Wilks PO ’71.
‘Faculty and student silence means nothing less than passive consent’: Chronicling the fight for a Black Studies Center in Claremont
The 1960s were an eventful time for Black students at the 5Cs. Until 1967, they didn’t have a Black Student Union, which eventually came to fruition largely because of the efforts of Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran PO ’69, John Payton PO ’73 and Danny Wilks PO ’71.