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1:03 KLCCs Brian Bull reports on Eugeneans reaction to the guilty verdicts in the Derek Chauvin trial in Minneapolis. Roughly 30 people showed for a low-key, informal gathering at the Wayne Morse Federal Courthouse in Eugene.  Most present said they were simply relieved that the jury found white police officer Chauvin guilty of all three counts in the death of George Floyd. Several attendees wore Black Lives Matter face masks and t-shirts saying “I Can’t Breathe.” Nona Solomon-Burt, at T...

Meet Corvallis’ New NAACP President Jason J. Dorsette February 6, 2021 Jason J. Dorsette takes the lead at the NAACP Corvallis/Albany branch as racial equality and equity are once again in the national spotlight, dominating this past year’s discussions after the widely publicized deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of law enforcement.  Dorsette originally hails from High Point, North Carolina, which is notably the furniture capital of America, if not the world. He reloca...

A Look Into OSU’s Black Student Union February 7, 2021 Oregon State University’s Black Student Union was born in 1968, during a time of great intensity and uncertainty. As Black students continue to face significant prejudice in 2021, the BSU serves as a supportive home for the community.    The BSU’s Roots   In 1968, according to OSU’s Special Collections and Archives Research (SCARC) information on the years of 1967-1969, 15,791 students were enrolled at the university, and .3% o...

Contexts by Rebecca A. London | January 26, 2021 Photo by Caniceus (Source: Pixabay). As the world moved to remote teaching and learning this past spring, I taught a designed-for-the-moment undergraduate course in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) called Coronavirus and Community. My goal was to create an opportunity for undergraduates, many of whom had moved back in with their parents, to...