IUP Center for Multicultural Student Leadership and Engagement

This important annual event is happening tomorrow evening. Please join virtually & support survivors. @iuphaven @iup_greendot

Join MCSLE and AAUW Indiana for Start Smart: an interactive salary negotiation workshop designed to give skills needed to earn fair compensation. April 14 at 12 PM. Limited space available in person. Email [email protected] to reserve your space and FREE LUNCH by April 9. Or enjoy lunch at hope and join through Zoom: bit.ly/39iD3ml

This week’s Building bridges is on job searching during a pandemic for many students searching for a job or internship has been a bit daunting a year into the pandemic the job market for graduating IUP students has transformed. Join Dr. Tammy Manko Director for @iup_cpdc for discussion about navigating these challenging times to find your dream career. Thursday April 8 via zoom, ID 94582988689

Our last Lunch & Learn is coming up...grab your spot in person before they run out! Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Join MCSLE for February 25-26 for Black History Movie Night: BlackkKlansman! Watch BlackkKlansman (2019) anytime between February 25th and 26th via Swank Motion Pictures’ Online Portal. If you are physically on campus or living in IUP housing, all you need to do is follow https://bit.ly/37umbIe, also advertised on MCSLE's social media pages. If your device is not connected to the IUP network (IUP wireless or connected to an on-campus network jack), you will be redirected to ...the Keystone Library Network username/password page. Click on the IUP Crimson Hawk to be prompted to enter your IUP Web Single Sign-on login credentials. Once completed, the film will launch Pick up a FREE snack pack in Elkin starting Monday, February 22nd while supplies last! Join MCSLE for a discussion at 6:30-7:00 on Friday, Feb 26th by signing up at https://bit.ly/3ue7BhP See more

Malcolm X (1925-1965) was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, and a Muslim minister and spokesman for the Nation of Islam. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, and grew up in Michigan. His parents were involved in Black activist organizations: his father was a local leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), while his mother worked as a reporter for the organization. This made them targets for white supremacist violence, which plagued his childhood and t...ook the life of his father. X spent seven years in prison for burglary charges; in prison, he decided to further his education, where he would convert to Islam and join the African-American political and religious movement, the Nation of Islam (NOI). Upon his parole in 1952, the organization recognized his intelligence and articulateness and appointed him a minister and national spokesman. Thanks to his leadership, NOI’s membership grew from 500 in 1952 to 30,000 in 1963. In 1964, after some tension within the organization, X left to form his own religious organization, the Muslim Mosque, Inc. The media and the FBI took interest in him for his charisma, the messages he had for the civil rights era, and the fact that he evaded many assassin attempts despite being without bodyguards. In 1965, he was assassinated during a speech in 1965; up to 30,000 mourners attended his funeral in Harlem. His book, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, was published posthumously and quickly became an American classic. #mcsleblackhistorymonth #blackhistoryfacts See more

Dorothy West (1907-1998) was a writer, remembered for her contributions to the Harlem Renaissance. As a teenager growing up in Boston, she won several writing competitions. Her 1926 story The Typewriter, won second place in a contest held by Opportunity magazine. Upon traveling to New York to receive the award, she fell in love with the city and made it her home. She enrolled in Columbia University to study philosophy and journalism. Living in Harlem, she interacted with ot...her talented black writers, painters, and musicians who contributed to the Harlem Renaissance, an intellectual revival of African-American art and literature spanning the 1920s. In addition to writing, West performed on Broadway and in theatre in London. Struggling financially in the 1930s, she used her savings of $40 to start a literary magazine for Black writings called Challenge. Economic troubles stunted her career success; she returned to Massachusetts and published her first novel, The Living is Easy, in 1948. After a period of obscurity, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who was working in the 70s as a book editor for the major publishing company Doubleday, met her and encouraged her to finish a manuscript that she had begun in the 1920s. The novel, titled The Wedding, was published in 1995 and posthumously dedicated to Onassis. The novel was a bestseller, which Oprah Winfrey made into a television miniseries starring Halle Berry. Before her death at the age of 91, West published more short stories and a memoir called The Richer, The Poorer. #mcsleblackhistorymonth #blackhistoryfacts See more

We’ve got two events coming up this Thursday! We’ll be recognizing some of our Black alumni followed by the first installment of our JEDI series. Hope to see you there! Indiana University of Pennsylvania #iup