Ethnic Studies
A petition created by two CU Boulder students seeks to make Black, Indigenous and other people of color feel safe, heard and valued
The new critical sports studies certificate at CU Boulder offers students the opportunity to combine their interests and career goals in relation to sports.
She was inspired partly by CU Boulder’s Patty Limerick, who has served as Colorado state historian
The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program at CU Boulder brings undergraduates and incarcerated individuals together—often with life-changing results
Jessica Ordaz argues that citizens should not be surprised by news of abuses, encourages student activism that lies ‘at the heart’ of ethnic studies.
Never officially recognized during her lifetime, the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Colorado was posthumously honored this spring. Now, a biography telling the long-overlooked story of Lucile Berkeley Buchanan has been published.
Born in Mexico and raised in Colorado, Herrera first set foot on campus as a junior transfer student intent on degrees in French and Italian, but he unexpectedly discovered a new passion.
In the five decades since a landmark presidential commission on crime, cops and courts have begun taking domestic violence more seriously, but much work remains to be done, says Joanne Belknap, a University of Colorado Boulder professor of ethnic studies.
Tipped off by a newspaper story, Polly McLean spent more than a decade exhuming Buchanan’s story and, finally, correcting history. For decades, CU's official history stated that the first black woman to graduate from CU earned her degree in 1924. But that was wrong.
The first African American woman to graduate from CU, in 1918, earned her degree in German. A trio of experts this month will discuss the historical trends that framed her choice.