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Bennett College Interim President Dr. Phyllis Worthy Dawkins is in Washington, D.C. today for a two-day event that includes a historic meeting tomorrow between HBCU presidents and chancellors and Trump administration officials. Tomorrow’s meeting will be held at the Library of Congress and was spearheaded by U.S. Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.), who met with Dawkins, state Sen. Gladys A. Robinson and 10 Bennett College students in the Global Learning Center on Feb. 24. Today, Dawkins and leaders of other UNCF member institutions will attend a White House “Listening Session” at 4:45 p.m. with senior Trump administration officials in the Eisenhower …

Congressman Mark Walker meets with Bennett College Interim President Dr. Phyllis Worthy Dawkins, Bennett students and state Sen. Gladys Robinson before taking campus tour In wake of a meeting between HBCU presidents and chancellors and Trump administration officials tomorrow, U.S. Representative Mark Walker (R-N.C.) met Friday with Bennett College Interim President Dr. Phyllis Worthy Dawkins, state Sen. Gladys Robinson (D-Guilford) and 10 Bennett students. The meeting was organized by Robinson, a 1971 Bennett graduate, chairwoman of the institution’s Board of Trustees and the deputy minority leader in the N.C. Legislature. “For me it’s personal,” Walker said during the Friday afternoon …

The events that led to the unionization of a Smithfield hog plant and past and present civil rights struggles will be discussed February 24-25 during “The Spirit of Social Activism,” a Black History Media Festival being hosted by Bennett College. Sponsored by the Bennett College Department of Journalism and Media Studies, the two-day festival begins Friday and is free and open to the public. All events will be held in the Global Learning Center. “We are excited about the Black History Media Festival because it allows us to share social activism stories with the public, including a little-known civil rights …

During a speech in which she invoked prominent women including Shirley Chisholm, Eleanor Roosevelt, Michelle Obama and Virginia Woolf, Sen. Gladys A. Robinson on Thursday encouraged Bennett College students to embrace the power of womanhood and to constantly reach higher. Robinson, a 1971 graduate of Bennett College, delivered the keynote address at the institution’s Honors Day Convocation, which began at 11 a.m. inside the Annie Merner Pfeiffer Chapel. Interim Provost Steve Willis presided over the ceremony. Other participants included graduating senior Jazmyn Alston, who read Proverbs 4:5-9, College Chaplain the Rev. Dr. Natalie McLean, who gave the invocation and benediction, …