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Viral TikTok from Black students at Mount Holyoke College sparks conversation about HBCUs and anti-Blackness on college campuses

Following the discovery of an anti-black slur in Pearsons Hall, Black Mount Holyoke College students have continued the conversation about racism on campus. 

Last week, a group of students posted a TikTok video discussing their experiences with racism and anti-Blackness as Black students at the College. The TikTok initiated a broader conversation surrounding anti-Blackness at academic institutions and how administrations and the federal government have lacked the appropriate responses to it.

Rhonda Saletnik finds joy in housekeeping at Mount Holyoke

Rhonda Saletnik finds joy in housekeeping at Mount Holyoke

Outside the door of each housekeeping closet is a whiteboard on which students write welcoming, encouraging and grateful messages to acknowledge Mount Holyoke housekeepers. For one housekeeper, Rhonda Saletnik, her life involves much more than cleaning up after students.