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She did this to be 'sold' and bought in order to raise money for a cause, ridiculing and dismissing the trauma that comes with being a black student who has actually come from a line of ancestors who were once auctioned due to the color of their…

Scholars from the Center for Mason Legacies (CML) closed out Black History Month 2025 with a lively showing of standout research projects conducted in the past year.

Mixed media source showing master plan for George Mason University. Titled "Tommorow"

The Harris Theater 10's "A Hot Thing" scene is a passage from Toni Morrison's book "Beloved," where Sethe contemplates the horrors of slavery and refers to the dead as "a hot thing."

GMU was not as ethnically or culturally diverse as it has come to be. During the early 1970s, George Mason College had a very low representation of Black students and faculty. This led to an investigation into the college’s efforts toward diversity…

The first year for baseball at George Mason College was 1968. The team would finish second in conference play at 7-2 but post a losing record overall at 8-12. Since this first team the baseball team has made 8 NCAA tournaments and had only 4…

Roger Wilkins in the center is being sworn in as Director of the United States Community Relations Service, Washington, D.C., January, 1966. Also in attendance is his first wife, Eve Wilkins, daughter, Amy Wilkins, and U.S. President Lyndon Baines…

This advertisement features an illustration of a white planter smoking a pipe, surrounded by enslaved individuals holding farming tools like hoes and providing shade with an umbrella. The image reflects the idealized portrayal of plantation life,…

1972 Yearbook Library View

This is an article about George Mason University's Women's soccer team who upset the University of Maryland to move on and face Harvard in the next game. The article has an image of Jenn Gross with a header describing her career accolades.