PODCAST
Meet the DJs that ran
campus in the ’90s
Back in the ’90s, at the height of the hip-hop scene, one group was at the center of the nightlife scene — the FOPO DJs. Today, Daybreak takes a trip down memory lane and revisits the past with the DJs. Listen in.
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‘Irrespective of color’:
Princeton’s missed opportunity
to integrate in the 1830s
188 years before the University would admit African American students, a man named David Leavitt offered the University $1,000 to admit students “irrespective of Color” and grant them “like privileges.” Despite being on the brink of financial ruin, the institution passed on the donation.
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Princeton Slavery Project reaches
ten-year anniversary, presents
findings to New Jersey
Reparations Council
Last month, Isabela Morales GS ’19 presented on her work with the Princeton and Slavery Project during the New Jersey Reparations Council’s first public hearing. Over the course of its ten-year existence, the Princeton and Slavery Project has published a plethora of stories and primary sources that shed light on the University’s extensive relationship with slavery.
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‘The first student movement to
call for divestiture:’ protests
against apartheid South Africa
Looking back on three generations of student advocacy for complete divestment from apartheid South Africa.
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Revisiting Princeton’s ties
to Lincoln University, one
of the nation’s early HBCUs
At one point nicknamed the ‘Black Princeton,’ Lincoln University was the first American college to grant Black students degrees. The Daily Princetonian looked back at the historical ties connecting Princeton and Lincoln.
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In the face of white-dominated
tradition, Black student-athletes
foster community
Organizations like the Black Student-Athlete Collective are working to establish a community by providing a safe space for student-athletes to meet others in their shoes and voice their needs and concerns to coaches.
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Black community in historically
Black Witherspoon-Jackson
neighborhood shrinks
The data show that Princeton’s Black community is indeed shrinking, both in Witherspoon-Jackson and across the town, though Princeton’s Hispanic and Asian communities have grown markedly over the same period.
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‘Our community has become a
commodity’: How Princeton’s
historically Black community
is fading
A ‘Prince’ investigation found that after the 2010 revaluation, property taxes in the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood increased by over $1,700 on average, nearly a 25 percent increase from the previous year.
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Black alumni provide major
endowment to Black Student Union
to support campus affinity groups
The Black Student Union has received a first-of-its-kind endowment, sponsored by Black Princeton alumni. It is the first endowment designed to give direct support to campus affinity groups.
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PUGE: A new gospel choir with a long history
Princeton University Gospel Ensemble, also known as PUGE, reformed at the start of the 2023-24 academic school year. But, this recent iteration is just the newest chapter in a history of student-run gospel choirs that dates back to the early ’80s.
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