Shaun Harper, a faculty member of the Graduate School of Education, Africana Studies, and Gender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, encouraged the revival of black student activism at the Black History Month Opening Ceremony on Wednesday, Jan. 30, at Stony Brook University.

Black History Month celebrations at Stony Brook University kicked off last week with guest speaker Marc Lamont Hill, Ph.D., associate professor of education at Teachers College and an affiliated faculty...