The Association of Beaver College Blacks (ABCB) was created by students as an affinity group in 1968, after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The small group of fewer than a dozen students demanded more equity on campus, supported by Professor Horace Woodland. In 1984, ABCB was renamed the Black Awareness Society, an organization still on Arcadia University’s campus. The Association is still in contact with each other to this day, and the emphasis on providing a holistic environment at Arcadia for students to engage, resource, dream, and evolve is something upheld by today’s university educators and personnel. To honor the work of these impactful women, a public art project is being created with current Arcadia students and resident artist NE Brown. It will consist of two benches with a planter centerpiece, as well as QR codes where visitors can listen to ABCB oral history. The planter will be created using student-made mosaic tiles, some of which containing newspaper a...