Berea College Labor Stories Berea College doesn’t just admit students, it hires them, too. Though in the beginning, the Labor program provided a means of support while attending…
Imagine a scene somewhere in eastern Kentucky, around 1914. A tent revival is underway. The preacher speaks for a while, then relinquishes the pulpit to a college professor,…
A profile of Sylvia Asante, dean of Labor Berea’s dean of labor, Dr. Sylvia Asante, had some idea about the work that goes on at Berea College before…
Too Christian, not Christian enough It’s not rare in America that a liberal arts college is church-affiliated. It’s also not rare that a liberal arts college used to…
When Reverend Steve Peake ’74 was a boy, he sat in a one-room segregated schoolhouse in tiny Fleming-Neon, Ky., listening to women from a nearby Christian organization tell…
Dr. Jim Gaines ’56: A Picture-Perfect Career In a laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis, graduate student Jim Gaines ’56 needed a way to observe a quantum…
Virgil Burnside ’74 and Dr. Jacqueline Grisby Burnside ’74 Dr. Jacqueline Grisby Burnside ’74 and Virgil Burnside ’74 met at Berea College, got married as students and marched…
Matilda Dada ’19 (Photo: Anna Joines ’17) Matilda Dada ’19Hometown: Atlanta, Ga.Major: Business “I have changed a lot since coming to Berea. My mindset has definitely changed. My…
For three days in 1988, a woman quietly toured the Berea College campus, chatting with students about their school and observing life in town. She remained anonymous until,…
It’s 1964, and a siren is whining across the Berea College campus. A small band of young men drop their books and sprint across the quad and all…