Inside Higher Ed and NPR also highlighted Gonzalez’s achievement.
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“Even though I wasn鈥檛 able to speak more than a few words at a time, still I knew I had to use my voice to fight for change,” she wrote.
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The Post calls the documentary a “moving arc of courage and perseverance” that features the “bright light of her personality.”
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President Joe Biden introduced Giffords as “one of the most courageous people I have ever known,” the Times reported.
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Samella Lewis, “godmother” of Black art and professor emerita of art, has died at 99.
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Gabby Giffords ’93 discusses her experiences with aphasia, with which she has lived for 11 years.
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Trustee Dwandalyn Reece ’85, associate director of curatorial affairs and curator of music at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, will discuss the museum’s new project, “The Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap,” at a virtual event hosted by the Washington Post.
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The Washington Post interviewed Hao Huang, Bessie and Cecil Frankel Chair in Music and professor of music, about his new podcast, Blood on Gold Mountain; his impetus for exploring the 1871 LA Chinatown Massacre in podcast form; and the lessons he hopes listeners will take from the story.
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In a Washington Post op-ed, President Lara Tiedens explained that Scripps’ decision to move to remote-only learning for the fall 2020 semester was based on coronavirus data and the College’s community values. “We are choosing to make data- and values-based decisions informed by the critical public health situation in Los Angeles and the country, and to prioritize the health of our faculty, staff, students, and the broader community that surrounds us,” she said.
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In the Washington Post, President Lara Tiedens, who has received numerous awards and honors for her research in the fields of social psychology and behavioral science, discussed the role of anger as an appropriate reaction to times of uncertainty. 鈥淏y being angry about something, you get to leave your feelings of uncertainty for a while and occupy a space and a sensibility of certainty and clarity and confidence,” she told the Post.
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