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28:00 Image Description: Gary and Lydia Abdullah smile while standing in front of a Forum on Black Affairs backdrop. Credit Courtesy Gary Abdullah Lydia and Gary Abdullah are longtime State College residents who met at Penn State in the early 1970s. They talked with WPSUs Cheraine Stanford about the evolution of their relationship and what’s made their marriage work for more than four decades. Here is the interview Cheraine Stanford  Welcome to Take Note on WPSU. Im Cheraine Stanford. On tod...

She arrived in Happy Valley as a Penn State freshman in 1972, and she’s never left. She married her college sweetheart, gave birth to two children and now dotes joyfully on three grandchildren.   But even though she brims with pride over those loved ones, Lydia Abdullah has never limited the exercise of her motherly gifts to her own family.  In fact, Mrs. Abdullah has also showered empathy and hugs on others throughout the Centre Region. That’s why she richly deserves selection as my �...

On Thursday, WPSU hosted a community discussion about the role of Black churches in central Pennsylvania and throughout the civil rights movement. Will Price, a 2017 Penn State graduate from

On Tuesday night, another Zoom bombing occurred during a Penn State Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications Creating Content in 2021 event titled "Digital Media and Marketing." According to Marie Hardin, dean of the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, unwanted users joined the Zoom event yelling "vulgar, racist and homophobic slurs" upon entry. "The welfare and safe environment for our students is our top priority," Hardin said. "When something like this happens, we rededicat...

The Penn State Forum on Black Affairs kicked off celebrations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday with a discussion on Friday with Black alumni from

Online remembrance honors King’s life and legacy with conversation, inspiration The 2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Celebration on Jan. 15, 2021, featured "Project 1972: A Conversation with our Elders," a panel discussion with Penn Staters who shared their experiences as Black students at the University in 1968-72. Clockwise from top left are: Denita Wright Watson, Barry Reddish, Monte Dawson, Earl Frank Merritt, Gary Abdullah, Selma Harrison and AnneMarie Mingo. Image: Patrick Mansell 4...

would buy it knowing its stolen. >> reporter: it certainly isnt worth anything on the open market. everybody knows about it and everybody has an opinion. >> sneaky sales. just get the picture out... get in a taxi go home without anyone finding him. thats intelligence and entrepreneurism. well done. picasso would applaud him. >> reporter: by the way, she was not in the art gallery of she was in the bar down the street you may have guessed that. the big fear now is that because everybody...