This Week at Fordham

Wednesday March 8 affirmative action was only helping Black people,” said Ball. “But in fact, the primary beneficiary of affirmative action was white women.”

McShane Campus Center Room 112 2:30 p.m.

Make your voice heard and join your fellow classmates, faculty and staff to discuss questions, concerns or ideas for our campus community. Lunch will be provided for attendees.

Wednesday March 8 Freman 103 6 p.m-9:30 p.m.

The Fordham Gaelic Society is hosting a screening of Des Henderson’s award-winning documentary “How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story.” There will be a short Q&A following the screening.

Thursday March 9 Barclays Center 7:30 p.m.

Cheer on the men’s basketball team during the fourth quarterfinal game as they wrap up one of their most successful seasons in almost 30 years. Students who buy tickets for $10 receive a free t-shirt.

He then explained that the media distorted who it actually benefited. Ball explained that the same thing is happening with critical race theory.

The workshop ended on the topic of allyship, where he showed a continuum from apathetic to aware to active to advocate to help explain how someone can become an ally.

At the end of the event during the discussion, an audience member raised the question of how to reach people who don’t want to listen. Ball responded by saying that too much anti-racism work is directed at people who do not want to listen, and it is better to focus on the people who are open and want to listen.

At the end of the event, USG’s DAC raffled off a book “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell to one of the attendees of the event.

“I hope attendees were able to have a broader conversation about Black history and racism as a whole,” said Al-Omoush. “This event was one of the best antiracism discussions I have been a part of at Fordham because it left attendees feeling uncomfortable about the lack of discussion that is being had on this front.”

Thursday-Friday

March 9-10

Blackbox Theater 8 p.m.

Support Fordham Experimental Theatre (FET) at their Bi-Annual Playwright’s Festival. The performance will consist of 3 short plays back-to-back. Join FET for D&D, horror and train-related dramedy.