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Local athletes get crash course on Black history in Arizona
Basketball players from Arizona State University and the Valley Suns gathered on Jan. 6 to learn about Black history in Arizona and Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to ASU's Tempe campus in 1964. The V...
ASU Library collection captures robust history of Arizona
Copper, cattle, cotton, citrus and climate. The so-called “five Cs” of Arizona are an enticingly succinct tagline for the state’s historically best-known outputs. But a revelatory repository at ASU...
Labriola Center book award shines 'bright light' on Indigenous scholars
Kaitlin Reed couldn’t believe it when she learned she had been named the 2024 recipient of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award. The award, handed out by the Labriola National Amer...
Eugene D. Valentine Collection offers the joy and interactivity of pop-up books
Arizona State University’s Eugene D. Valentine Collection is a whimsical and cheery repository of approximately 800 pop-up books, but that doesn’t mean it should be taken lightly. Each book is consid...
MLK's 1964 speech at ASU subject of new, continuing exhibit
On June 3, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech at Goodwin Stadium, then the home of Arizona State University’s football team. The speech was titled “Religious Witness for Human Dignity” and wa...
ASU collection preserves legacy of modern architects, buildings in the Southwest
Arizona has a complicated record when it comes to the preservation of historic structures. It’s a place that thirsts for development, regularly churning the old back into the earth so that something n...
ASU grad dedicated to music, libraries and Indigenous sovereignty
If you stepped inside the Labriola National American Indian Data Center at Hayden Library in the past two years, you may have heard Nataani Hanley-Moraga before you met him. His beat making and lo-fi ...
Thunderbird archives: These walls do talk
At most universities, if you want to learn about their history, you must enter a library and dig through an expansive archive. At the Thunderbird School of Global Management on Arizona State Universit...
Expanded staff, new space helps connect Labriola Center with Native American community
Alexander Soto’s excitement and joy was evident as he showed a visitor the new Labriola National American Indian Data Center space inside Hayden Library on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus. Th...