W.E.B. Du Bois College House

Happy First day of classes! We want to give a warm Du Bois welcome to the class of 2028. You made it to Penn! Congratulations. We are excited to see your impact on the Penn Community.

Happy First Week of Class guys!! Come celebrate with us tomorrow with some free popsicles in the house lobby

Welcome back, Du Bois! Upper class Move In begins today. Your RAs are super excited to meet you. Join us in the Haskins MPR, to grab your House Merchandise from 10am-4pm.

Join us for a special event for the Second Year Experience!

Don’t miss the screening of Ava DuVernay’s powerful film “Origin”. Inspired by Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” this event promises to be enlightening and inspiring.

Stay after the film for an insightful discussion with Penn Faculty Members, Rahul Mukherjee, Ph.D., Lisa Mitchell, Ph.D., and Tukufu Zuberi. Ph.D.

Students can share their reactions to the film and discuss its themes with other students and the faculty panel.

Welcome Home, Family! The official first day of move in, begins today!!! Du Bois residents feel free to drop by the MPR to meet your house team on Tuesday 8/20, Wednesday, 8/21, between 10am - 2pm and Friday 8/23 10 am -4pm!

We look forward to seeing you!

Don’t Forget!

See you in the MPR tomorrow!

Thank you for joining Faculty Director Dr.Amalia Daché & Resident Advisor Ruth Oyerokun for a conversation with our Table for Ten guest, Dean James from the Wharton School!

Two different opportunities for you to get Move Out Information! Join us in the MPR on either day to learn more!

We had a great time on Earth Day at our Tote-ally Sustainable Event!

See you there!

Stop by and say hi! 🎉

Thank you all for joining us and for our workshop! We had a blast.

Happy Throwback Thursday, Du Bois! We wanted to share a flashback to last week’s Black History Month Lecture with Dr. Amalia’s special guest lecturer, Dr. Anugom.
Thank you to all that participated!

Don’t forget to join us on Sat. 2/18 at 11 am for brunch and a fireside chat in the MPR!

Don’t forget, Zulu in Residence with Dr. Audrey is today at 6pm in Seminar Room A. Join to learn about the Zulu Language and Culture with your neighbors!

JOIN FACULTY DIRECTOR, Dr AMALIA DACHE FOR A BLACK HISTORY MONTH CONVERSATION WITH GUEST SPEAKER IFEYINWA ANUGOM, Ph.D.

IN THIS TALK, DR. ANUGOM SUBMITS ESTABLISHED SCHOLARLY PROJECTS REINFORCE A “MODEL MINORITY” OR MODEL BLACK IMMIGRANT NARRATIVE THAT MAINTAINS ANTI-BLACK RACISM, IN WAYS THAT PROMOTES A COLOR-BLIND AGENDA THAT CREATES A RACIAL WEDGE BETWEEN OTHER RACIALIZED MINORITY GROUPS, NAMELY AFRICAN AMERICANS.
DR. ANUGOM’S PRESENTATION WILL

1) IDENTIFY AND INTERROGATE LITERATURE BOTH SCHOLARLY AND NARRATIVE ON U.S. BLACK COLLEGIANS;

2) EMPLOY RESEARCH FINDINGS AND WORK THAT INDICTS THE LACK OF RECOGNITION OF MODEL MINORITY AND MODEL BLACK NARRATIVES IN WELL-ESTABLISHED SCHOLARLY PROJECTS; AND

3) RECONCEPTUALIZE THE WAYS IN WHICH WE STUDY AND SERVE BLACK STUDENTS WITH TRANSNATIONAL BACKGROUNDS.

Du Bois! Don’t forget about Cafecito with Faculty Director Director Amalia and Santiel! We will see you today (2/10) at 2:30pm for pastries, Cuban Coffee, and Spanish!

Throwback photos of House Council’s Winter Wonderland event! It was a beautiful program featuring a gingerbread house building contest.

Du Bois loves Spades Night! A special thank you to RA Marcus for hosting a wonderful Spades event last month! Don’t worry, Spades (and other card games) will be returning this Friday 2/10 @ 5pm in the MPR! RA Marcus says there will be snacks!!

Last Month the Du Bois House Council held the first DuBois Mentor & Me event for the Spring semester.

Thank you to our mentors for sharing their experiences and our Mentees for participating!
Special thanks to for making this event possible.

Cafecito returns today (2/3) at 2:30pm in the Du Bois College House lobby! Don’t forget to stop by for Pastries, Spanish immersion, Cuban Coffee, and Community!

Don’t forget about the workshop on investing. The workshop will be led by Financial Wellness @ Penn. It will cover all the things you should know to get started growing your wealth, including opening retirement accounts (Roth IRAs vs traditional IRAs). This workshop will be insightful for those interested in building generational wealth.

If you're interested in attending, please register using the link in the photo, so that we know how much food to order. The workshop will be on Monday 1/30 from 5:30-6:30pm in the MPR.

Be an RA! Applications are open now at the link in our bio, and the priority date for undergrads to apply is February 17. Find out more information on our page (link in bio), and level up your experience and that of your residents by being an RA!

Thank you for leading Du Bois through Sleep Quizzo! Congratulations to Team Memory Foam winning the game! Special Thank you to RA Diego for hosting.

Thank you to all that joined us at our Mental Health Monday Series with Monique Williams
Special thank you to House Fellow Jack Drummond for joining us.

Check your emails for the Du Bois Digest! This week is full of outstanding events, job opportunities and more!
Tonight 1/23 Mental Health Mondays continues with Monique Williams in Seminar Room A. Pizza, wings, salad and drinks will be available while supplies last!

Thank you for joining us at the Living Fair this week! And congratulations to all prize winners :)

Oh! We almost forgot to announce our raffle winner from the Family Dinner! Ari Ketchum (pictured) won the grand prize. Congratulations Ari!

Welcome back, Du Bois! We had a great time at our family dinner last night. Special thanks to Browns Kitchen for feeding us well.