Shifa Abdul-Rahman

OPINION 4/19/22 11:02pm

Philanthropy doesn’t excuse slavery

By Shifa Abdul-Rahman

In January, the Rice Board of Trustees announced plans to move the Founder’s memorial to another area of the academic quad as part of a whole redesign, adding additional context of his “entanglement” with slavery. This comes despite continual calls from the student body to not have the enslaver displayed in the quad regardless of the context provided. It would be just for these calls to action and the majority of the Task Force Committee who voted to not keep it there that the Board of Trustees decide to not keep the memorial prominently displayed in the quad at all.

OPINION 3/1/22 11:07pm

Letter to the Editor: An invite to our new President to sit with us

By Gautam Nayer , KeShawn Ivory and Shifa Abdul-Rahman

Responding to the Rice Thresher reporter Bonnie Zhao reporting on the relocation of the WMR statue on January 25, 2022 “Rice to move Founder’s Memorial within Academic Quadrangle”