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A Ray of light

(09/12/18 4:00am)

We are witnessing a moment in this country where people, young people in particular, are challenging the racial nostalgia of halls of higher learning. That is to say, as we raised our hands in classrooms, prodded projects further in study sessions and office hours, we at some point asked ourselves, who will we honor? Last Wednesday, students rallied to echo Duke history professors that Julian Carr, a pro-Confederate, should no longer be memorialized. It is with enthusiasm that I second the History faculty’s formal proposal to rename Carr Building after the late historian Raymond Gavins.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2018/09/180911-lopez

Souls of lay folk

(02/08/18 4:29pm)

Upon stepping through the glass doors, one is greeted by a single word, “black.”—in lower-case, not taunting or privileging any definitive blackness. And yet, the title bears a period; it’s a statement. Duke senior Evan Nicole Bell is in the tradition of María Varela, organizer and photographer for SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) in Selma; of Frank Espada, photojournalist for Puerto Rican activism in the late 70s to early 80s; of Moneta Sleet Jr., the Pulitzer-Prize winner who famously captured a grieving Coretta, and countless others. Bell’s exhibit however marks a crucial turn in her predecessors, namely in her emphasis on the “everyday spaces” of black people. Her lens is not on the pantheon of black heroines and heroes, but rather, on the working-class folk that celebrate, and struggle, their blackness. 

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2018/02/180208-lopez

A dying paternalism

(10/28/15 5:43am)

From Sophie Cruz’s crayon-scrawled letter to the pope, to Jesus “Chuy” Huerta’s memory—his vigil march forged by injustice and tear gas—to the unsung women of color on this campus that sin ningua queja hold it down, to my primos luchando para estudiar en este país, to the newly born “anchor babies,” to the undocumented workers still unpaid to renovate the Marriot hotel downtown, to my Black herman@s still without sanctuary, to the obituaries and pantheons littering my tongue, yo dedico estas palabras a tí…

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2015/10/a-dying-paternalism