Award-Winning Brooklyn College Slam Poetry Team in the Spotlight for National Poetry Month Four team members share their experiences and processes as poets, and talk about the responsibility of artists to critique the world around them through their art. Read More
Co-creator of #SAYHERNAME Spotlights Police Violence Against Black Women and LGBTQ People at Brooklyn College Event Activist, attorney, and author Andrea J. Ritchie led a talk about the daunting challenges faced in the quest to center women of color, and queer and transgender people as victims in discussions of state violence. Read More
Power to the Production A new intensive summer program shows students how to use media to channel their activist voices. Read More
Signs of Change: Brooklyn College Implements Gender-Inclusive and Gender-Neutral Restrooms In a gathering held in Ingersoll Hall, the college stressed the need to embrace its tradition of inclusion and ensure the transgender, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming communities full access to its facilities. Read More
A Highly Decorated Bunch Brooklyn College congratulates the scholars, fellows, and others with distinguished recognitions among its student body. Read More
Faculty and Staff Authors Celebrated at Brooklyn College Annual Book Party The event, now in its 25th year, recognized authors of more than 50 new titles. Read More
Poetic License April is National Poetry Month and Brooklyn College has long been a home to poets as diverse as its campus. Read More
The Rona Jaffe Foundation Establishes Fellowships in Creative Writing “The Rona Jaffe Foundation is very pleased to provide support to Brooklyn College in the form of these fellowships to incoming female graduate students in the M.F.A. program,” said Beth McCabe, director of The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards and a board trustee. “They will, we hope, not only provide much-needed funding within the program, but also help attract the strongest writing candidates to apply.” Read More
Brooklyn College Faculty View First Amendment Rights Through an Interdisciplinary Lens Workshop highlights solutions to police surveillance on campus. Read More
Award-winning Author and English Professor Moustafa Bayoumi Lends His Voice in Support of Free Speech Bayoumi joined thousands on the steps of the New York Public Library for PEN America’s Writers Resist rally. Read More
