As part of its annual series of events to pay tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and honor Black History Month, in February the UNH Office of Community, Equity and Diversity welcomed two activists from the national Truth Telling Collective to Durham. Asia Dorsey and Kristine Hendrix spent three weeks in residence at UNH conducting workshops and teaching skills aimed at mending race relations and encouraging non-violent change — welcome work in the wake of a 2016–17 academic year that ended in student protests around questions of diversity and representation. “The Truth Telling Project is about speaking truth to power, so a lot of it revolves around storytelling and giving people the ability to speak their truth because so often these stories go unheard or unbelieved,” Hendrix says.
