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By Sarah Breske | April 15, 2021 Procrastinating Americans woke up on that April day knowing their taxes were due. President Richard Nixon had just eased a trade embargo on China. The Supreme Court was deciding whether busing was a constitutional means to desegregate American schools. In a few months, the voting age would be lowered to 18, and The New York Times would expose government secrets by publishing the Pentagon Papers, making the Vietnam War even more unpopular with the public. In Flo...

/ Black students assemble in front of Tigert Hall on the morning of April 15, 1971, in preparation for their confrontation with Stephen OConnell. On April 15, 1971, a group of Black students marched to Tigert Hall with six demands in hand. Then-UF President Stephen C. OConnell threatened to suspend them all unless they vacated the premises immediately, and the students ended up in jail. Procrastinating Americans woke up on that April day knowing their taxes were due. President Richard Nixon h...

UF Alumni Reflect On Black Thursday And The Black Student Experience By Audrey Mostek April 14, 2021 Betty Stewart-Fullwood was among the 100-plus Black students who left the University of Florida after the administration’s response to their demands for better treatment in 1971. “It was the principle of the matter,” Stewart-Fullwood recalled Tuesday during a virtual panel discussion commemorating the 50th anniversary of the campus protests commonly known as Black Thursday. “I needed to...

26 Feb 2021 : Nathan Griffin Editor Úna Ní Dhonghaíle We caught up with IFTA and BAFTA winning editor Úna Ní Dhonghaíle to discuss her latest project Misbehaviour, for which she recently received a British Film Editors (BFE) Award nomination, working with Kenneth Branagh on Belfast & Death on the Nile, and some insight and advice on the craft of editing. Having studied Film & Media in D.I.T Aungier Street, Úna turned her attention to editing, studying...