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The Official Newsletter of The University of Maryland's Black Student Newspaper
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April 9, 2026 | Volume 1 | Issue 8
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This week in news, we have Vice President of Belonging Georgina Dodge announcing her retirement and UMD denying claims that Nyumburu interim director Psyche Williams-Forson will be prematurely terminated by the end of the month. Along with that, we have an opinion essay on embracing what you truly want.
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-Nina Wilson, 2025-2026 Editor-in-Chief
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The Vice President for Belonging at the University of Maryland, Georgina Dodge, will retire on the Fourth of July, the University President Darryll Pines announced Tuesday.
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Dodge led the office of Belonging & Community, formerly known as the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, for seven years, helping “build a more inclusive and connected campus community,” the email stated.
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The office oversees a variety of units, including the Nyumburu Cultural Center, Bias Incident Support Services, and the LGBTQ+ Equity Center, with the larger aim of supporting “anyone who needs help establishing a sense of belonging and finding a nurturing community,” according to the site.
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The retirement comes days after Dodge denied allegations from the Nyumburu Cultural Center’s student ambassadors that the center’s interim director, Psyche Williams-Forson, would be prematurely terminated by the end of the month. Dodge announced that the search for a new director will begin in the coming weeks.
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🔗: Read more here
✍️: Mara K. Bell
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Both the light in your eyes and your vagina are shriveling up on the hopes and dreams that they’re the one for you. You’re too full of life for a maybe.
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Now, I know the epigraph is a bit crass, but I’m known for being unapologetically honest, so please excuse the language. Exes, situationships, new guy, new girl, new crush, the one that got away, the one who stayed, right person, wrong time, wrong person, right time. I think maybe we’d all sleep a little easier at night if we just accepted that maybe that person taking up copious amounts of space in your mind isn’t a great match, a great situation or a great lifestyle for you, and it might be time to move on.
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I began to wonder, what is the appeal of being someone’s “maybe,” and what would happen if you just chose not to be?
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🔗: Read more here
✍️: Naomi Kyei
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EDITORS NOTE: The Nyumburu Cultural Center sponsors The Black Explosion Newspaper’s website through July. Laura Charleston signed the student ambassador’s letter and is the copy chief for The Black Explosion. She did not work on this story.
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Vice President of Belonging and Community, Georgina Dodge, denies allegations from Nyumburu student ambassadors that Nyumburu Interim Director Psyche Williams-Forson will be prematurely terminated by the end of the month.
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The allegations come from a letter the student ambassadors sent to university officials on Thursday. Seventeen individuals signed the letter: 14 student ambassadors, the co-president’s of the University’s NAACP chapter and Black faculty and staff association President Solomon Comissiong.
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That's all for this week. See you next Thursday!
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