Mar 7, 2019
Susan Orlean Finds Herself in the Library
By Stephen Wilson When Los Angeles Public Library caught fire in 1986, the blaze burned for seven and a half hours, reaching temperatures of 2,500 degrees…
Lectures
Feb 26, 2019
Black Panther Founder Calls for Political Unity
Story by Sydney Edelson ’19, photos by Clay Wegrzynowicz Bobby Seale, African-American activist and co-founder and national chairman of the Black Panther…
Feb 16, 2019
Alan Cooperman to Speak on Religion in America March 6
The Lafayette Symposium will feature Alan Cooperman, director of religion research at Pew Research Center, speaking on “Is Organized Religion in Decline…
Dec 6, 2018
You’re Not the First
By Kathleen Parrish In December 2010, Margot Lee Shetterly and her husband were paying a holiday visit to her parents’ home in Hampton, Va., when her…
Dec 6, 2018
Invisible Hands
By Kathleen Parrish If you think algorithms are neutral bits of data and code devoid of bias, consider that a 2015 study discovered Google’s online advertising…
Dec 1, 2018
Insight from Innovators
By Stephen Wilson Blockbuster Video. Kodak. Toys “R” Us. Sears. Businesses fail. Even ones with amazing longevity. When their value in the culture…
Nov 9, 2018
The History and Media Portrayal of Thugs
By Kathleen Parrish In the 1939 movie Gunga Din, the villains were a secret society of turban-wearing assassins. For many western movie-goers, it was the…
Oct 30, 2018
‘I Had the Confidence I Could Do It’
By Bill Landauer Angelika von Wahl posed a question to former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Tuesday night that might fill volumes and trouble…
Oct 30, 2018
Lafayette-Liberia Connections
By Roger Clow Diane Windham Shaw, director of special collections and College archives, illuminated Lafayette’s role in educating black students in the…
Oct 28, 2018
A Fresh-Eyed Look at Empires
By Bill Landauer In the first half of the 20th century, two world wars shook the planet to its core. The handful of empires that controlled the largest…