#MyBlackIsGold

#MyBlackIsGold Updates

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Amount Raised: $2,970.70

Ose Jackson — Class of 2015

This donation is for my community. May AAAS continue to do great work and thrive at this institution. DePauw cannot silence its Black students and alumni of color, despite their negligence. Nor can they have my money. But I will certainly give to the organization/house that…

Tavares Ingram — Class of 2014

As an Alumni of Color, I stand in solidarity and love with the students of DePauw University who are fighting for equality and safety. Some institutional changes must be made to ensure ALL students at DePauw are safe and welcomed, especially students of color. #MyBlackIsGold

Anonymous — Class of 2017

Especially this past week, there has been an attack against non-white bodies on our campus. Every student deserves to have a community where they feel welcomed and supported completely. While the university strives to make the entire campus that place, AAAS will continue to be this…

Anonymous

I am in solidarity with POC at DePauw. Within my time there, incidents were always happening but nothing seemed to be done by administration. I never felt safe there. My culture seems to be joke or a costume to some students and the staff didn’t seem to care. The past incidents that have happened have made me…

Rachel Hanebutt — Class of 2015

The following is why I am personally donating to AAAS at DePauw and not participating in DePauw Day.

Ariel Cheatham — Class of 2016

I am writing this letter to express the impact the Association of African American Student’s (AAAS) house had on my DePauw experience. I arrived on DePauw’s campus in August 2012, and I was not excited about being away from home or in an unfamiliar town. After my family…

Anonymous — Class of 2017

I’m doing this because students of color deserve better than this, they deserve justice that the university is not giving them.