This story is part of a continuing series that features Black leaders at USF during Black Heritage Month. From a young age, Goziem Nwafor devotedly watched the show “Static Shock,” which starred a Black superhero fighting crime. Being one of the few Black students in his elementary classes, the image […]

This story is part of a continuing series that features Black leaders at USF during Black Heritage Month. In a high school soccer game brawl, junior mechanical engineering major Langston Richardson took a hard fall and tore his right shoulder’s labrum and rotator cuff in an attempt to catch himself […]

This story is part of a continuing series that features Black leaders at USF during Black Heritage Month. Growing up traveling the world with her parents, professor of the School of Geosciences and Director of the Institute on Black Life (IBL) Fenda Akiwumi leads with a holistic perspective of different […]

This story is part of a continuing series that features Black leaders at USF during Black Heritage Month. As Nadia Niang ate lunch one day, a casual peek at her email would make her day as she found out she was one of two recipients of the USF Black Alumni […]