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WCSU alumnus Owen Peagler: A leader in higher education, state government and civil rights
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WCSU alumnus Owen Peagler: A leader in higher education, state government and civil rights

January 30, 2023April 30, 2025 hills

Owen Peagler, who grew up in New Milford when horse-drawn wagons drove the streets nearly as often as cars, graduated from Danbury State Teachers College […]

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Black Heritage-History Month program presents talk Feb. 26, film screening March 5 : ESPN news editor Claire Smith featured in film and lecture at WCSU

February 19, 2019December 1, 2021 hills

DANBURY, CONN. — The life and career of veteran sportswriter and ESPN news editor Claire Smith will be the subject of a documentary film screening […]

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CCSU scholar to relate legacy of key 19th century abolitionists to contemporary struggle: Historian Dann Broyld to discuss fight for black liberation then and now

February 4, 2019December 1, 2021 hills

DANBURY, CONN. — Central Connecticut State University historian Dr. Dann Broyld will discuss the work of leading 19th century abolitionists in achieving freedom from slavery […]

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WCSU to host panel discussion about ‘Afrofuturism, the Black Panther and the Black Panthers: Fantasy and Liberation’

February 14, 2018March 5, 2024 hills

DANBURY, CONN. — Western Connecticut State University will host a panel discussion about “Afrofuturism, the Black Panther and the Black Panthers: Fantasy and Liberation” at […]

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Feb. 8 lecture features Wilmot James, visiting professor at Columbia University: South African public health expert and former MP to speak at WCSU

January 29, 2018November 17, 2021 hills

DANBURY, CONN. — Dr. Wilmot James, an expert on public health and prominent advocate of democracy who served for eight years as a Member of […]

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