BLOC (Building Leaders On Campus)

07/20/2021

Join us for the Game 6 Watch Party!
Alumni and current members welcome.
RSVP and Zoom link in bio

06/17/2020

Breathe. Love. Orient. Celebrate. Join us on Juneteenth for a celebratory meditation session that you don’t want to miss! Amid great violence towards Black souls of diverse identities, we want to offer an oasis of Black affinity to help cultivate Black wellness.

(Visit the link in our bio for more info.)

02/25/2020

Rest In Peace and Power, Queen! You made and left America Better than you found it. Hope that we can continue the legacy of excellence and integrity already laid before us .

Katherine Johnson, a history-making NASA mathematician depicted in Oscar winning film "Hidden Figures," died at 101 years old. Johnson began working at NASA's predecessor, the National Advisors Committee in 1953. She did trajectory analysis for Alan Shepard's 1961 mission Freedom 7, which was Americ...

02/07/2020

WHAT’S GOOD IG! It’s been a minute! BLOC’s been having a packed week and has BIG plans for this Black History Month. Just wanted to share some pics to show what we’ve been up to.

Pic 1: After some deliberations BLOC has agreed upon three events for this February. The first will be a screening of Poetic Justice on February 13th, followed by an event with BSA over at CMC, and a brunch centered around the topic of mental health in the black community. (All events will be posted on Facebook in advance.)

Pic 2: After mentoring Pomona High School students in YMC. Member Thali was asked in an interview to reflect on his time when he himself attended Pomona High School.

BLOC is looking forward to this semester and seeing you at events.

Much love ✊🏾,
BLOC

02/02/2020

Happy 1st Day of Black History Month! BLOC Member's Former students' Black Student Association At The University of Chicago Lab School has some REAL demands for the institutions that are supposed to represent, include, and support them!!! 20% of the Demand, "For the administration to create and swiftly enact specific consequences for the use of intolerant language and actions, regardless of a students' or teachers' financial background, donations, and long-standing relationships between that person and the school. Currently, these actions are prohibited, but no specific punishments are outlined. Without set rules and swift action, it makes it extremely easy for racist and bigoted actions and words to be swept off as a “joke” or unimportant to our community. It also passively tells other students that these acts are not important and implies that it is okay to continue these acts and ideas. In addition, we ask that if a student who has an infraction stays in our community that there be a learning session implemented for the student to make sure they understand how and why their actions were harmful and inappropriate. We believe that every student should be given a chance to redeem themselves and that incidents like these are prime teaching moments. However, the responsibility of educating students should not fall constantly on students of color. These punishments should be explicitly stated in the handbook so that no student can claim ignorance of their actions and the consequences."

The Black Students’ Association read an open letter during the Jan. 16 Martin Luther King assembly. The letter demanded that every member of the U-High community make a more conscious and concerted effort to address racial, religious, and identity-based bias and discrimination in and outside of th...

10/20/2019

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Although community college campuses are increasingly becoming more racially diverse, racial equity gaps in enrollment, academic preparedness, and completion between white students and students of color persist. The lack of faculty and staff of color on community college campuses is equally problemat...

07/05/2019

Evers' 78 vetoes were a reminder that Wisconsin gives its governors some of the most sweeping executive powers in the country.

03/11/2019

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Her GOP colleague told her she had to stop talking during the debate on a stand-your-ground law. “No, I don’t,” she said. “What the hell you gonna do, shoot me?”

10/22/2018

Happy Monday Fam.

10/16/2018

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna920231

Videos of "Cornerstore Caroline" in Brooklyn and a white St. Louis woman trying to prevent a black man from entering his apartment building are the latest.

10/09/2018

no one should be above the law; Though it’s hard to remember with Trumps and Kavanaughs still making moves...

A Little Note From The GED Section...