Senior Staff Writer Sophia Wotman is a Senior Staff Writer covering the Affinity & Activism beat under University News. She is a junior from Long Island, New York concentrating in Political Science with a focus on women’s rights. She is a jazz trumpet player, and you’ll often find her performing on campus and around Providence.
On the final day before the deadline for a University advisory committee to issue a recommendation on divestment, 150 students gathered outside of Faunce Arch Monday afternoon to rally in support of divestment from 10 companies with ties to Israel.
Brown's Advisory Committee on University Resources Management is closer than ever to releasing its public recommendation on whether the University should divest from 10 companies affiliated with the Israeli military. To make this recommendation, the committee examined two student proposals: Brown Divest ...
As the divestment push has stretched into the fall and a vote by the Corporation — Brown’s highest governing body — on whether to divest nears, climate activists have continued their original campaigns while intertwining their efforts with the movement on campus to divest from companies with ties ...
On Tuesday evening, about 100 community and student activists — including approximately 50 Brown students led by the Brown Divest Coalition — gathered in front of Senator Jack Reed’s (D-RI) office to support Lebanon following recent Israeli military attacks on the country to target Hezbollah. ...
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, discussed the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and voiced support for divestment at a virtual talk on Monday.
Five students brought their case against divestment from 10 companies with ties to the Israeli military before Brown’s advisory committee on Monday evening.
A 39-page memo obtained by The Herald outlines how a group of students plans to argue later today against divestment from companies with ties to the Israeli military.
Looking at the lighter patches of grass left behind by the tents from last spring’s encampment for Palestine, some might have thought that student activism on campus would start to lose its steam. But some key moments are still to come this fall semester, as activist groups and University administrators ...
Administrators, faculty and alumni from Brown and Tougaloo College, a historically black college in Jackson, Mississippi, gathered on June 6 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership Program.
Next month, students and scholars will gather on campus to discuss social justice, inequality and activism at a conference celebrating W.E.B Du Bois, a prominent African-American scholar and founder of the NAACP.
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