Jessica Washington

Yesterday gender and sexuality historian Grace Sanders Johnson gave a talk on black feminism in relation to Haiti.

For the second year in a row the top four Academy Awards nominees have been white actors and actresses, causing many to question why non-whites in film lack recognition.

A former iteration of the council failed to please administrators because of the proposal to levy sanctions on Greek organizations for instances of cultural insensitivity. 

About a year ago, students disrupted the annual holiday study break at Penn President Amy Gutmann's house with a protest.

Last Week Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation, held a protest in solidarity with students at The University of Missouri and Yale, who had been protesting the unfair treatment of minority students on their campus, and in the case of Missouri the failure of the administration to proactively address the issue of racism on their campus. 

A second Penn student will go to the U.K. on a Rhodes Scholarship next year.

Penn's campus is no stranger to protests, and the demonstrations at Yale last week bring up the difficult balance between free speech and cultural sensitivity.

This Thursday, some Penn students walked out of class at 2:30 p.m. as instructed by a Facebook event promoted by campus minority groups.

Although nationally the two Democratic presidential front-runners Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have struggled to hold and maintain their favorability among black voters, at Penn students believe both candidates have something to offer black constituents. 

Last year, the issue was highly discussed on campus after members of the Student Labor Action Project and Students Organizing for Unity and Leadership organized a protest at Penn President Amy Gutmann’s annual Christmas party.