Dr. Campbell Speaks of Forging Consensus Ahead of MLK Virtual Celebration

The Torch sat down with Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell to discuss the upcoming virtual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s legacy. Lane Community College is hosting the event Thursday Jan. 13 from 5:30-7:30 p.m., register here.  Dr. Campbell is the 10th President of Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Spelman is a Historically Black University…

Lane’s Black Student Union to Host Panel On Critical Race Theory Misinformation

Lane Community College’s Black Student Union panel The Big Lie: Countering the Narrative of the Political Fiat of Critical Race Theory will attempt to dispel misinformation and set the record straight on what CRT is.  Critical Race Theory has been the education buzzword of the past year. School boards across the country have been inundated…

Stories of the Past Meet Movements of the Future

By: Molly Newhard Building 18 is getting a colorful facelift. Muralist Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith’s newest piece is inspired by the late climate activist and Lakota historian LaDonna Brave Bull.  Wolfe-Goldsmith said they met Brave Bull during Give Power’s solar program launch at the Standing Rock Reservation in July of 2019. Wolfe-Goldsmith pulls inspiration from a video…

Former Black Student Union President Bridges the Gap Between Food and Culture

Every Sunday, Treylon Day of DayInTheLife Entertainment LLC hosts a Sunday Supper with local chef and author Mia Multiplied at the WildCraft Cider Works’ upstairs balcony. Day is a Lane Community College alumni and former president of the campus’ Black Student Union.   The Sunday Supper is a quaint event, hosting on average 18 people. The…

Black Organizations go from Moment to Movement

Dr. Lamont Francies shares his strategies for social resistance and education as a spiritual process through the Black church.  Francies is a senior pastor at Delta Bay Church of Christ in Antioch, California. He graduated from the University of San Francisco with a master’s in sociology and counseling and a doctorate in international multicultural education….