Etched into boxing legend Muhammad Ali’s gravestone are the still-impactful words from his 1978 quote, “Service to others was the rent I paid for my room in heaven.” While his devastating reach in the ring was 78 inches, the reach of his legacy as a champion for social justice and civil rights continues to be
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Hanover, Ind. is a long way from Lusaka, Zambia, but that did not stop Anne-Marie Sichinga ‘21 from making our community her second home. Sichinga chose to attend Hanover because: “I thought the campus was beautiful and I felt the smaller campus size would be easier to transition to coming from another country.” As an
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On June 19, 1865, federal orders were read in Galveston, Texas, that stated the Civil War had ended and all previously enslaved peoples were declared free. More than two years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation – slavery was completely abolished in the United States. Now known as Freedom Day, Black Independence Day and
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Members of the Hanover Community, Today, the American flag near my home flies at half-staff in response to the tragic and senseless murder of eight women in the Atlanta area, as directed by President Biden. Details are still emerging, but we know that six of these women were of Asian descent, adding to the rapidly
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Hanover College’s Duggan Library has received a grant from Indiana Humanities to build a circulating collection of materials focusing on racial equity and related issues. The Advancing Racial Equity Collection Development Grant provides funding for Hanover’s campus library to purchase print and electronic books, as well as DVDs, to explore racial equity and social justice
continue readingMany are aware of the recent announced changes to the Student Exchange Visitor Program by the U.S. government regarding the status of nonimmigrant students this Fall. In summary, the new rule – which is being challenged in court – states that nonimmigrant students attending colleges that are fully online in the Fall may not enter or stay
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Members of the Hanover Community, Yesterday our students, faculty and staff joined together for an interfaith service of lament and repentance in response to the brutal deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and so many other African Americans who have been the victims of unjust police violence and the continuing American legacy of institutional racism.
continue readingThe recent events in Minneapolis which led to the untimely death of George Floyd as well as the death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville have once again cast a sharp spotlight on the challenges and inequalities that African Americans and people of color face daily in this country. Citizens all across our nation have taken
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