Weekly Update from the Urban Center

Hi All-

Hope that your midterms are going well! The semester is going by fast, but there are still many opportunities to volunteer at a non-profit!
Here at the Urban Center, we have created a binder dedicated to volunteer opportunities for students and staff at Metro. This binder provides a brief description of the organization, the type of commitment, contact information, and additional information. If you are interested in a specific interest, we can help you become more resourceful by looking at the binder in our office or looking at non-profits in Denver with great contacts. If you have any questions please come to Tivoli 243 and ask for our organizational binder!
Other upcoming news:
Center for Urban Connections is showing Blood Diamonds, on March 17th in the Multi-Cultural Lounge. We are showing the film from 6:30 until 9:30 pm. If this interests you, please come! Its free and a very interesting movie.

Very recent news:

Since it is women's history month, Metro State's very own Women's Studies department puts on many events throughout the month focusing on the empowerment of women as well as the history. One of the events, happened today which was the Bridge Speaker. This year the speaker was Sapphire, who wrote the book Push. Push became the powerful movie Precious, which portrays a young girl, Precious, an illiterate teenager whose father impregnated her with two children is faced with a lot of ugly truth in her life. This movie is about life's hardships, the truth and how one must appreciate what they are given and empower themselves to always be precious with life. Sapphire gave an amazing speech on her experiences and read from her 1996 book, Push. Sapphire talked of her experiences with meeting young African-American women who had encountered experiences involving sexual abuse between a young women and their mother or father. Later in the talk, Sapphire read a heated scene where Precious talks to her mother in the halfway house.She cannot remember any happy feelings where she encountered her mother. She cannot help but ask of her father/abuser to Precious. A very "inconvenient truth", spoken by Sapphire, she recalls that the sexual abuse for a African American woman is quite different than any other woman of color because of the history of slavery. I found it very moving and engaging. Sapphire emphasized the meaning of education and women. If women are educated they become powerful individuals. All in all, this was a great speaker who let us into a part of her activist writing & form of art.


Hope you have a great week & Happy Volunteering!