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Mike Daniels, interim director of Kent State's Student Multicultural Center (SMC)

Is this America? Where popular culture is largely represented by Black culture? Where musicians, artists, and athletes can be praised and celebrated for their talents, but criminalized for their skin color? Mike Daniels shares his insight. 

Members of the ºÚÁÏÍø Esports team compete in the finals of a League of Legends tournament held at Kent State.

The Mid-American Conference (MAC) announced Wednesday a historic esports venture with a newly created independent esports conference – Esports Collegiate Conference – to facilitate and foster high-quality gaming competition among collegiate esports teams. ºÚÁÏÍø is among the 12 founding members of the new esports conference. 

Photo collage of Kent State women's teams

ºÚÁÏÍø has won the Mid-American Conference’s Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) for women’s sports award for the first time in school history.

Kent State students walk to and from class.

University and student leaders share their personal insights into America's current unrest and whether protests will lead to lasting change. 

Tayjua Hines, president of Kent State's Black United Students, speaking at a George Floyd protest in Kent.

Tayjua Hines, president of Black United Students at Kent State, shares this student perspective about racism in our country and says now is the time to enact change.

Amoaba Gooden, Ph.D., interim vice president of the Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Amoaba Gooden, Ph.D., Kent State's interim vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion, and chair and associate professor in the Department of Pan-African Studies, offers her insights in current unrest in America.

Neil Cooper, Ph.D., director of the School of Peace and Conflict Studies.

Neil Cooper, Ph.D., director of the School of Peace and Conflict Studies, says civil disturbances of the kind witnessed since the death of George Floyd represent moments of opportunity for societies.

Cleveland Police Patrolman Kevin Jones is captured shedding a tear by Kent State photography student Sylvia Lorson.

A ºÚÁÏÍø student is gaining recognition for a photo she took that captures an African American Cleveland police officer shedding a tear as he came face to face with demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis Police custody.

Members of ºÚÁÏÍø's Undergraduate Student Government Painted "Flashes Take Care of Flashes" on the Rock on Front Campus.

The Kent State Emergency Grant Fund is helping students meet financial challenges.

Members of ºÚÁÏÍø's Undergraduate Student Government Painted "Flashes Take Care of Flashes" on the Rock on Front Campus.

The Kent State Emergency Grant Fund is helping students meet financial challenges.