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Prominent Bears join in celebrating men’s basketball’s national title

…ional champs!!!!!! ⁦⁦@FinalFour⁩ ⁦@BaylorMBB⁩ ⁦@BUDREW⁩ #sicEm pic.twitter.com/6LcaH3uGZ6 — Chip Gaines (@chipgaines) April 6, 2021 Longtime ESPN personality Trey Wingo (BA ’85) and Baylor football coach Dave Aranda also were there to cheer on the Bears: Title game with ⁦@BUFootball⁩ HC Dave Aranda #sicem pic.twitter.com/shtyvlZ6gz — trey wingo (@wingoz) April 6, 2021 Many others were flinging their green and gold from afar — such as The Office st…

Baylor alum’s message hits at the confluence of faith, race and social justice

…Meditations for Engaging Our Life and Time (due out later this month). His writing has also been featured by such outlets as PBS NewsHour, Sojourners, Word & Way, and The Conversation. In 2011, he launched The Preaching Project, a ministry aimed at equipping ministers to better serve African American churches and communities. The effort was inspired by Gilbert’s father, the late Rev. Robert Lewis Gilbert (BA ’67), a pastor and civil rights leader…

Baylor prof’s book makes New York Times’ recommended reading list

…or in 2018 after four years at Valparaiso. Throughout his career, he has become an expert on the cultural, intellectual and religious history of the American South in the 19th century. He’d tossed around the thought of writing about Calhoun for a few years, but was especially moved to start drafting after the horrific 2015 shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. Elder recalls there were cries for a statue of Calhoun to be taken down,…

Culture of JOY leads Baylor men’s basketball to first Big 12 title

…during the celebration. #Big12Champs 🏆 #SicEm 🐻 | #TimeIsNow 🏀 pic.twitter.com/2Ym1HntVxP — Baylor Basketball (@BaylorMBB) March 3, 2021 “Joy” has been a buzzword for the team this season — an intentional part of the program’s culture. National player of the year candidate Jared Butler explained it this way: “A culture of JOY is Jesus, Others, and then Yourself, so it’s a hierarchy of the way of thinking… For me, it’s [also] the fact that I get to…

Looking back on Black History Month 2021 at Baylor

…us all with their medley arrangement of three Black Gospel songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itis2D7So7A Former Baylor football and NFL standout Walter Abercrombie (BSED ’86, MSED ’92) explained the impact of representation as he remembered another Bear, John Westbrook — the first Black football player to play in the Southwest Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P069yjrmeCk Baylor senior Dahron Mize of Tau Alpha Alphas (Alpha Phi Alp…

Interested in diving into Black literature? Check out this list from Baylor English profs

…traditions. I also tried to pick pieces that somewhat intentionally offer complicated narratives. Pieces that speak to the complexity of life — the joys, the hardships, and the mundane — and so illustrate Black experiences, not ‘the Black experience.’” Poems and Short Prose: “won’t you celebrate with me” (Lucille Clifton) “BLK History Month” (Nikki Giovanni) “I, Too” and “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (Langston Hughes) “alternate names for black bo…

Baylor track & field star rewriting the NCAA record book in 2021

…January 17, 2021 Afterwards, he said he was “expecting some bigger bars to come,” and he delivered. Back in Lubbock two weeks later, he made sure his previous record didn’t last very long. On his second attempt at clearing 19 feet, 6.25 inches (5.95m), he cleared the bar and broke his own NCAA indoor record. Currently, his 5.95m mark is tied for the best in the world this year with 2012 Olympic gold medalist Renaud Lavillenie of France. The track…

Baylor entrepreneurship named among nation’s top 10 for 12th straight year

…am is now formally known, is firmly established among the nation’s best undergraduate entrepreneur programs. Interested in learning more? Check out their website at baylor.edu/business/entrepreneurship. Sic ’em, Baylor entrepreneurship!…

BU alum’s latest film, “The Little Things,” stars Denzel Washington, Rami Malek & Jared Leto

…tch the trailer below; language and violence warning.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HZAnkxdYuA The film’s debut comes almost 30 years after Hancock first wrote the script. “It would have saved us a lot of money to make it contemporary,” Hancock told the AP. “But I liked the idea that this was pre-DNA 1990. Investigations were harder. Everything was harder. You had to take rolls of quarters for payphones.” In another interview, Hancock told Dea…

Baylor’s campus became a winter wonderland this weekend

…but young at heart! ⁦@Baylor⁩ ⁦@BaylorS3⁩ #snowbear #snow #fun pic.twitter.com/y0Ixp36hg1 — Kirk Wakefield (@kirkwakefield) January 10, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRhK4bqQZow&feature=youtu.be Sic ’em, snow bears!…