Dear Berea Alumni and Friends, The year 2020 is definitely one for the history books. As the world was still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, our nation collided…
Dr. Thomas Boyd was known for his fiery, tell-it-like-it-is personality, his tweed coats with patches at the elbow, and a voracious appetite for reading. A scholar-activist with strong…
Chance, happenstance, faith and love mark one alumnus’ journey from Ghana to Berea At 1 a.m. in Elmina, Ghana, after a long day of selling water on the…
Navigating college athletics in the COVID-19 pandemic The presence of COVID-19 in our world seems to have altered the way everything and everyone functions—and athletics is no exception.…
“It’s not just about what you know—what are you going to do with it?” Berea College professor of Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies, Dr. Wendy Williams, reflects…
Dear Berea Alumni and Friends, In January, I asked, “What does it mean to be radical?” Who could have known that by March our world would be radically…
bell hooks is known for inspiring generations with her feminist writing, teaching and poetry on race, class and gender. In March, “TIME” magazine named her one of the…
Berea professor conducts diversity training to build relationships between police and campus community In the summer and fall of 2012, two unarmed African American teenage boys were shot…
Sharyn Richards Mitchell FD ‘65, BC ‘69: Making Connections Through her natural curiosity, love of research and making connections, Sharyn Mitchell has helped innumerable people, campus departments, alumni…
What does it mean to be radical? One definition I was drawn to is: (especially of change or action) relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something;…