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Studying in Greece was everything TWU's Huggins imagined

9/27/22

School has been back in session for a month and everyone is getting back into the daily classroom routine, shaking off the last daydreams of summer. It's been easier for some than others.

Not everyone met and was then separated from the great passion of their life.

"I really miss hearing Greek people in the background," TWU senior Riley-Grace Huggins said. "I miss that a lot. I had a FaceTime call with a friend over there, and she was speaking Greek to her mom. I almost cried. I miss it."

"It's not about the film, it's about the dialogue"

9/22/22

Spencer Wilkinson is not preaching to the choir.

It would be easy to dismiss Wilkinson's documentary, Alice Street, as just another socially conscious rant about gentrification, giving vent to a community's spleen. But the award-winning Alice Street is not a fist-shaking protest film, and Wilkinson has far greater ambitions than stirring up anger, regardless of how valid that anger may be.

Because Alice Street is a discussion piece.

TWU alumna spices her cuisine with social justice

9/20/22

TWU alumna Sharina Hassell, chef at Alexandre’s in Oak Lawn, has debuted the Chick-full-gay, a tongue-in-cheek homage to the sandwiches at a certain fast-food chain. The new fried chicken sandwich, with two pickles and a smear of mayo on both buns, is set to become a regular special on the menu.

“It was our idea on how to reclaim something for our community,” Hassell said. Alexandre’s sold the Chick-full-gay sandwiches, each packaged in a bag with a rainbow sticker, to Pride parade marchers.

Gentrification in spotlight in film screening at TWU

9/13/22

Texas Woman's University will host a screening of Alice Street, the award-winning documentary about gentrification and the efforts of a community to protect its history, voice and land. The film will be shown Sept. 26 at 2:30 p.m. in the Hubbard Hall auditorium. Admission is free, a panel discussion featuring TWU and Denton community leaders will follow, and Alice Street director Spencer Wilkinson will attend.

Phillips-Cunningham pens op-ed about Nannie Helen Burroughs

9/6/22

TWU's Dr. Danielle Phillips-Cunningham has a new op-ed in the Washington Post: "On Labor Day, we honor a trailblazing Black educator and organizer," about Nannie Helen Burroughs, founder of the National Training School for Women and Girls in 1909.