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BC’s athletic director and head football coach views on the Black Lives Matter moment

September 10, 2020

Bakersfield College has launched a series of live Facebook discussions with the Danny Morrison Show. In episode #8, Morrison discussed how the world of sports has been managing the Black Lives Matter movement and the response of it. The panel included BC’s Athletic Director and Dean of Kinesiology, Reggie Bolton, and BC’s Head Football coach, R. Todd Littlejohn. The discussion...

A racial conversation with Danny Morrison

Logan Odneal, Reporter

September 2, 2020

In a collaboration with Bakersfield College, the Danny Morrison Show went live on Facebook with Chain Cohn Stiles’s senior partner, Matt Clark and author of “A Language of Healing for a Polarized Nation” and self-described rabble-rouser, Bob Prater, to discuss white people’s role in the ongoing racial conversation, on Aug. 25. Morrison presented “Seven Series”...

Bakersfield College honors the life and legacy of John Lewis

Jocelyn Sandusky, Reporter

July 31, 2020

In a partnership with Danny Morrison Media, Bakersfield College celebrated the life of late Congressman John Lewis with a special tribute featuring reenactments of his speeches, musical performances, and faculty and community leaders’ thoughts on his most important contributions and lasting legacy on July 29. The live stream began with a few words from co-presenter Danny...

Generation Z’s perspectives on racism with Danny Morrison

Haley Duval, Editor-in-Chief

July 5, 2020

Throughout June, Bakersfield College launched live discussions with Danny Morrison Media. In Episode 4, Morrison talked to three Generation Z multicultural members of the Bakersfield community to discuss their opinions about the controversies from their racial and personal perspectives on June 30. Morrison constructed a racism test for the panel with a series of questions. He...

Bakersfield College celebrates Juneteenth by hosting “Light A Candle” virtual series

Haley Duval, Editor-in-Chief

June 20, 2020

Bakersfield College hosted a variety of virtual activities to commemorate Juneteenth and addressed several conversations on racial issues in the community with the Danny Morrison Show, local, statewide, and national leaders, and more called "#LightACandle: A Juneteenth Conversation" throughout June 3-19, to mark the oldest known celebration of the end of slavery in the United...