Oral historian Andre Taylor discusses the Strollin' exhibition at Swem.
Diversity Videos
Three students explore the possibilities for William & Mary's Highland as part of an Institute for Integrative Conservation (IIC) research project.
Artist Roberto Jamora discusses the making of 'Confluence,' which commemorates the earliest Asian American students in attendance at William & Mary.
Clips from a workshop conducted by the Gamelan group Cudamani during a visit to William & Mary.
Roberto Jamora, W&M's Asian Centennial Distinguished Fine Arts Fellow, discusses his art and creating spaces for revealing identities within APIA.
Excerpts from an informal performance of "Green & Gold" at the site of the new bronze "Sankofa Seed" (featuring artists' comments.)
Quan Chau '21 created "The Specter" as he explored what it means to have Asian roots in U.S. society. Learn more: https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2021/chaus-the-specter-vietnamese-american-play-explores-transgenerational-trauma.php
Student Assembly leaders Kyle Vasquez '21 and Loni Wright '21 discuss their initiative to have members of the campus community generate art representations of those known to have been enslaved by William & Mary. Learn more: https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2021/student-led-art-project-honors-legacy-of-individuals-enslaved-by-wm.php (Contains 18 images chosen for the President's Collection of Art, courtesy of the Muscarelle Museum of Art.)
Omiyemi Artisia Green, W&M associate professor of theatre, reflects on grief and healing as she watches her play, 'Dance of the Orcas,' being filmed at Hampton's Buckroe Beach. Learn more: https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2021/on-buckroe-beach-filming-dance-of-the-orcas.php
Chon Glover, chief diversity officer at William & Mary, is intent on moving the needle regarding diversity in ways that are sustainable. Learn more: https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2021/chon-glover-25-years-of-moving-the-diversity-needle.php
Kelebogile Zvobgo, director of W&M's International Justice Lab, considers what a truth commission could contribute to an investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington, D.C. Q&A with Dr. Zvobgo: https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2021/race,-rights-and-reparations-what-a-u.s.-truth-commission-might-look-like-today.php
Director Alise Larder discusses the W&M Theatre production of "Citizen: An American Lyric."
Marcus Bengzon offers thoughts on race as a participant in "Songs of Freedom," an online celebration of civil rights produced through Aguas Arts Ink, an initiative of W&M theatre professor Francis Tanglao Aguas.
Members of the student group Griffin Bhangra dance during the 2022 Charter Day ceremony at William & Mary. (For more info, see https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2020/the-long-view-wm-celebrates-its-history-while-planning-for-the-future.php.)
Jacquelyn McLendon, W&M professor of English, emeritus, and author of "Building on the Legacy: African Americans at William & Mary,' was a special guest at a Muscarelle Museum of Art event in conjunction with the exhibition "1619/2019."
W&M professor of English Hermine Pinson reads a poem interpreting Steve Prince's 'Allegory of an Old Woman in the Upper Room.'
Excerpts from the Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration hosted by the Center for Student Diversity at William & Mary.
Syrian rapper Omar Offendum joined W&M's Middle Eastern Music Ensemble in rehearsal and performance.
Steve Prince, director of engagement for the Muscarelle Museum of Art, uses an industrial steamroller to print one of the pieces featured in "The Links Project," a global initiative reflecting on the impact of slavery. Learn more about this community art project: https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2019/muscarelle-culminates-links-project-by-making-steamroller-print-at-wm.php
Rehearsal footage of Omiyemi Artisia Green's "Dance of the Orcas" from her choreo-ritual, featuring choreography by Ann Mazzocca Belleci. Learn more about Green's efforts to chronicle journeys of grief and renewal in this choreo-ritual: https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2019/wm-professor-chronicles-journey-of-grief,-renewal-in-choreo-ritual.php
W&M professor of art history Charles Palermo interjected himself into the "Life of Washington" mural controversy when he wrote a letter on behalf of NonSite.org.
Assistant professor of history Jody Allen discussed historic African-American communities on With Good Reason.
The ribbon is cut opening William & Mary's trans locker, a space where students can get clothing to match their gender identities. See the W&M News story: https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2019/center-for-student-diversity-to-offer-trans-locker-this-fall.php
W&M professor of theatre Leah Glenn reflects the experiences of a student dance team she led to Cape Town.
W&M professor of history and Africana studies Robert Trent Vinson outlines the importance of Jamestown in establishing racial slavery in America.
W&M professor of history and Africana studies Robert Trent Vinson suggests that the debate about democracy demonstrated when the president recently visited Jamestown goes back to 1619.
High-school students participating in NIAHD's (National Institute of History and Democracy) summer program got a close-up look of the Angela site at Jamestown.
Volunteers join a Virginia Institute of Marine Science effort to protect the Pamunkey Reservation shoreline against erosion.
Graduate student Michael Davis, who is legally blind, became the first runner with a disability to push a rider with a disability to the finish in the Boston Marathon.
Former W&M first lady Zoë Graves received a portrait and a conversation during her visit to the exhibition ‘Sankofa: Looking Back, Moving Forward’ hosted by the Muscarelle Museum and its artist-in-residence Steve Prince at Williamsburg’s Stryker Center.
Martha Gizaw '20 has emerged as a campus leader in the neurodiversity movement.
W&M assistant director of students Lesley Henderson discusses W&M's neurodiverse student population.
W&M senior Harrison Feiner looks across musical styles to inform his own compositions.
As part of W&M’s commemoration of 100 years of coeducation, a group of faculty and students collaborated this semester to create the devised theatre piece "... & Mary,"
Clips from the Astral Fashion Show hosted by W&M's Students of Hip-Hop Legacy (SoHHL) and Rocket Magazine.
W&M and the Lemon Project dedicate the Bray School marker on March 15, 2019.
The W&M Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Victor Haskins rehearses Roy Hargrove's "Strasbourg-St. Denis."
Phillip Emanuel discusses Queen Mary utilizing documents and items from the Thomas G. and Louise Rowe Pullen Collection at Swem Library.
W&M students make comments and lead a walk across campus in commemoration of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Falicity Wheless '18 created a tour of Jamestowne highlighting the experiences of women there.
Professor Stephen Sheehi's students compete in a cook-off competition.
William & Mary's Inside Out Theatre brings words of diversity to the university community.
A conversation with members of William & Mary's Inside Out Theatre.
W&M's Omohundro Institute hosted a "Vast Early America WIkistorm" to add 100 women to Wikipedia.
Artisia Green, associate professor of theatre, offers insights about the upcoming production of "The Children's Hour."
Members of the class of 2018 participate in W&M's first Lavender Graduation Ceremony.
The W&M choir under the direction of Miles Canady rehearsals "Messages to the Human Heart," a piece by Jeraldine Herbison commissioned for the university's 50th anniversary celebration of the first African-American residential students.
W&M professor of history Chitralekha Zutshi discusses her new book "Kashmir: History, Politics, Representation."
Highlights from the open-mic night hosted by the Students of Hip Hop Legacy (SoHHL) at the university.
W&M assistant professor of religious studies Oludamini Ogunnaike attempts to bring the genre to a wider audience.