My student life: Anna Turnquist
Anna Turnquist is a junior studying business with certificates in international business and political risk analysis.
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News from the Division of Student Life
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Supporting UI students living off-campus
Most University of Iowa students move off-campus after completing their first year at Iowa.
Continue Reading#WordlessWednesday: Chasing music in the City of Literature
Iowa City has cultivated passion for many of the arts from theatre to painting and most notably, literature.
Continue ReadingTrump Presidency: Musings during a water break
"They don't understand what it means to me...Where we chose to go, where we've been to know." – Solange Mid-terms and deadlines were in the midst of devouring everyone's lives when news of the new President-elect swallowed campus; a barrage of white and red dad caps ushered a palpable fragility into the fall semester.
Continue Reading#WordlessWednesday: Meet rising Violinist Mikhayla Hughes-Shaw
As content creators and curators, the Melanin Voices team strives to give the Black University of Iowa community a platform to showcase their struggles, talents, accomplishments...you get it.
Continue ReadingBook Review: Filling history with life in the book "Invisible Hawkeyes"
Invisible Hawkeyes: African American at the University of Iowa During the Long Civil Rights Era Edited by Lena M.
Continue ReadingA Lil' Theory Series: So Help Me God Pt. 1
Every month Melanin Voices will decode an inter-sectionally BLACK philosophy, theory or concept as part of the 'A Lil' Theory Series'.
Continue ReadingA year of Black Art; Real Stories providing creative spaces for Black voices
A litte over a year ago, I linked up with Co-Founder and then Chief Editor of Black Art; Real Stories Shawn Boursiquot to chat about what I deemed a "wall-breaking literary platform." BARS had garnered buzz – some enthusiastic, others unnecessarily bothered – around the University of Iowa community.
Continue ReadingHalloween: Minorities on the flip end of cultural appropriation
Every October we’re bombarded with images of Native American headdresses, Mexican sombreros, Japanese kimonos, and African American afros being worn by people it was never meant for.
Continue ReadingA Lil' Theory Series: Double Consciousness
Every month Melanin Voices will decode an inter-sectionally BLACK philosophy, theory or concept as part of the 'A Lil' Theory Series'.
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