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    School spirit with Maya Moore
    Cheerleaders prepare to lift up Maya Moore during a Penn basketball game.
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    • School spirit with Maya Moore

    The junior flyer on the cheerleading team discusses the training and practice required for the sport, flipping and flying through the air, and her interest in health and medicine.
    Courtside with Princess Aghayere
    Princess Aghayere sits her her locker in the home locker room at the Palestra.

    Courtside with Princess Aghayere

    The senior forward discusses growing to love basketball, how her game has improved, and moving from sixth woman into the starting five.
    Running into the history books
    Calvary Rogers races around the track during an indoor meet.

    Running into the history books

    On Sunday at the Ivy Heps, Calvary Rogers became the first sprinter in conference history to win the indoor 200m dash three years in a row.
    The ignorance of blackface
    abstract faces rendered in bold patterns and colors

    The ignorance of blackface

    Historian Mia Bay discusses the history of blackface, its intent, and why it is still occurring in the 21st century.
    Back to back
    Members of the women's track and field team pose with the Heps indoor championship banner.

    Back to back

    The women’s track and field team has won the Ivy League Indoor Track & Field Heptagonal Championships for the second straight season.
    The times and life of W.E.B. Du Bois at Penn
    W.E.B. Du Bois sits at his desk in his office.

    Photo courtesy: W.E.B Du Bois Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries

    The times and life of W.E.B. Du Bois at Penn

    In 1896, Du Bois was appointed an assistant instructor at Penn and began his investigation of the Seventh Ward of Philadelphia—research that he would turn into his groundbreaking work, “The Philadelphia Negro.”
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