Events

[PRESENTATION] In September, Ashley Powell, a graduate student of art at UB made national headlines when she placed “White Only” and “Black Only” signs around campus. “This project, specifically, was a piece created to expose white privilege,” she says in a statement about the project. “Our society still actively maintains racist structures that benefit one group of people, and oppress another. Forty to fifty years ago, these structures were visibly apparent and today these signs may no longer exist, but the system that they once reinforced still does.” On Thursday, November 12 Powell will give a presentation at Burning Books in response to the criticism her piece has received.