‘You were my bullies’: Sac State theatre and dance students confront faculty over systemic racism
Khala Clarke and Nijzel Dotson
August 9, 2020
Over the past month, members of the Sacramento State theatre and dance department have set up virtual meetings for students and alumni to share their stories of systemic racism from professors in the theatre and dance department. “Black lives are and have always been subjugated to oppression in...
NEWS PODCAST: Assembly Bill 2023 and deadnaming in the classroom
Kayleen Carter and Robbie Pierce
April 27, 2020
On this episode of The State Hornet’s News Podcast, our diversity and identity beat writer Kayleen Carter interviewed Lauren Pulido, a class of 2019 alumnus who now works at the state legislature, about AB 2023. If passed, the bill would allow transgender and nonbinary students to use their preferred...
Sac State hosts community forum discussing Asian American discrimination, coronavirus
March 5, 2020
Students and faculty gathered Wednesday evening in Sacramento State’s University Union Ballroom for a community forum regarding the discrimination against Asian American and Pacific Islander communities amid the coronavirus outbreak. Along with a panel of law enforcement and health experts, Sac St...
‘It’s called a deadname for a reason’: Sac State LGBTQ+ students on importance of preferred names
February 13, 2020
Lee Kennedy, a communications major at Sacramento State who identifies as transgender and nonbinary, was in a crowded classroom when their professor asked them what their name was before they changed it. They responded by telling their professor that they didn’t feel comfortable talking about it. ...
Sac State students reflect on identity and the Black experience on campus
Kayleen Carter and Nijzel Dotson
February 7, 2020
Throughout history, Black Americans have endured oppressive abuse. They were forced to work in grueling, inhumane conditions for no pay. They were denied home ownership and the pursuit of interracial relationships. They were told their livelihoods were to be controlled by those in power. Bla...
NEWS PODCAST: The Black student experience at Sac State
Kayleen Carter and Nijzel Dotson
February 6, 2020
This week on The State Hornet News Podcast, diversity and identity beat reporter Kayleen Carter and staff writer Nijzel Dotson sit down with freshman criminal justice major Hannah Rowlett to discuss the Black student experience at Sac State in honor of Black History Month. Carter and Dotson are working on a feature s...
Ruby Bridges honored at Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at Sac State
Kayleen Carter and Dylan McNeill
January 26, 2020
Sacramento State held the 21st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration in the University Union Ballroom on Saturday evening with a keynote speech from civil rights activist Ruby Bridges. Bridges was the first Black child to desegregate an elementary school in the south when, in 1960, she attended William ...
Thousands march for equal rights at 4th annual Sacramento Women’s March
Kendra Rivera-Molina, news editor
January 18, 2020
Thousands of human rights, supporters, community members, and activists rallied Saturday at the fourth annual Sacramento Women’s March. The march was held in solidarity with Women’s March Global, a movement started three years ago in support of preserving womens’ rights worldwide. Members ...
Sac State Indigenous students and educators reflect on what Thanksgiving means to them
November 27, 2019
The first Thanksgiving was held sometime between late September and early November in the year 1621 at the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, according to the California State Indian Museum, a three-day feast held between colonists and Indigenous men. It is estimated that somewhere between 5 and 15 million Indigenous people lived in what is now the United States when Christopher ...
Anti-racism author speaks at Sac State about Trump, multiculturalism
November 7, 2019
Anti-racism author Tim Wise spoke at Sacramento State Thursday about the rise of hate speech during President Donald Trump’s administration and the need for acceptance of other races. Wise is a prominent anti-racism activist and has spoken at Yale, Harvard and Columbia University, according to ...
The Big West Conference board of directors announced Wednesday that fall sports competition will be postponed through the end of the calendar year.