BSA holds week-long celebration featuring Unity Park step show

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 A-State’s Black Student Association kicked off BSA Week last week, full of fun activities to celebrate the organization’s membership and achievements throughout the year. 











The BSA is a student organization for anyone who supports the empowerment of black people in general. BSA puts together events and shares its views to represent the voice of black students on the A-State campus. The organization just recently celebrated its 48th year on the A-State campus.






“We aim to educate, have fun, and simply celebrate the reason we’re here at Arkansas State,” said Charity Brown, a sophomore social work major from Osceola. “BSA Week not only allows our members to have fun through entertainment and community service, but also allows nonmembers to join in.” 





Brown, BSA secretary, said it’s important to have a black-centered student organization on a predominantly white campus like A-State for a number of reasons. It promotes diversity and it also gives non-black people exposure to black culture and black attitude. 





“For this to be a predominantly white university, I believe (nonblack) students don’t know or see firsthand the black attitude or the black culture, other than what they see on the media. So I think it’s good to have that diversity here and those resources here so that we can voice our opinions and explain who we are and what we stand for, and people can get that and see directly from the source,” Brown said.





The organization started the week with an open discussion panel on Monday titled “What a Man Wants,” held in the Reng Student Auditorium. Three student panelists -- Xavier Flowers of Helena; Reggie Wright of Nashville, Arkansas; and Jordan Owens of Memphis -- discussed the intricacies of dating in the black community, with multiple topics ranging from what they look for in women, to their approaches to dates and ...


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