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“Facing Our Truth: Short Plays on Trayvon, Race, and Privilege” explored themes of racial injustice and what the trauma of growing up black in America looks like, with an audience and actor “talk-back” panel following each performance. 

Melina Abdullah, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, spoke to 120 members of the University community in honor of Black History Month Thursday in the Campus Center Ballrooms. 

University of La Verne students and faculty gathered for a Black Lives Matter discussion Monday in the President’s Dining Room to examine how the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2012 illustrates prominent racial issues in America.

Claudia Rankine, author of “Citizen: An American Lyric,” spoke at the University of La Verne’s One Book, One University event, with one at 11:45 a.m. and another at 3:30 p.m., Wednesday in the Morgan Auditorium.

Campus and community arts events for the week of March 6, 2015.

Campus and community arts events for the week of Feb. 27, 2015.