On Sept. 22, just days before bell hooks’ 69th birthday, Berea College officially launched the opening of the bell hooks center on campus. Located in the iconic Draper…
Erika ’23 An unfortunate message perpetuated about Appalachia is the “get-out” narrative: the encouragement for young people to get an education and go elsewhere to find better prospects…
Eastern Kentucky saw a new day when Appalshop unveiled the largest net-metered renewable energy system in the area in June 2019. The solar panels were installed to address…
Dr. Jan Pearce In a field where women have slowly dwindled from earning 37 percent of undergraduate degrees in 1985 to 18 percent in 2019, Dr. Jan Pearce…
James and Cynthia Hicks Although their time at Berea overlapped, Cynthia Hairston Hicks ’79 and James Hicks ’76 did not know each other as students. They were introduced…
Jessie Ball duPont Fund To hear Mari Kuraishi, president of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, describe her philanthropy’s mission is to catch a distinctly American ethos at work.…
In 2006, when trying to land my dream job at Berea College, I met a person who had once worked there. I was trying to learn as much…
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…
Berea alumna and journalist focuses her work on migration, human rights and gender equality “When I met them, I didn’t know if they would live to tell their…
Photo by Lifetouch Photography Growing up in Greenville, S.C., Dr. Delphina (Del) Hopkins-Gillispie ’73 was encouraged by family, clergymen and teachers to attend college. While she applied to…