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10/2/2026 | Volume 2 | Issue 3
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Welcome back to the Aftershock, The Black Explosion's weekly newsletter.
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This week read about how the African Student Association is looking beyond UMD, a new run club on campus and the new Interim Director of the Nyumburu Cultural Center following Psyche Williams-Forsen's contract expiring.
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-Razak Diallo, Editor-in-Chief
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Nyumburu director connects public health, culture and Black joy in new role
By Nina Wilson | Photo: Nina Wilson
Stephan Thomas has worked at UMD for decades. He's a professor of health policy and management as well as the founding director of UMD's Center of Health Equity. Over the summer, he received a call to become the Nyumburu Cultural Center's new interim director. For him, the job of directing a culture institution is not too dissimilar to the work required for public health.
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Thomas is the second interim director of the center since Ronald Ziegler's retirement as director in August of 2025, following 25 years in the position.
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Black Girls Run builds community for Black women, one step at a time
By Maia Wilson | Photo: Zion Zackery
Every Thursday at 6 p.m., Hornbake Plaza becomes the starting line for a new run club on campus.
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- Four Divine 9 Sororities: UMD has four historiaclly Black sororities chapters some beginning as early as 1974 while others reactivated as recently as 2022.
- ASA goes beyond: The African Student Association plans to do more work in the community outside of campus.
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