Suffolk recognizes April as it’s Pride Month, so this article will shine a light on the LGBTQ+ community at Suffolk over the years.  The information below is all that is known. There were most likely gay, trans or other non-straight/cis students and faculty at Suffolk since the early days of the university.  According to the Moakley Archive & Institute, Suffolk University was home to...

In the fourth part of this four-part series, which will come out in April, The Journal will celebrate Suffolk’s LGBTQ+ history in honor of Suffolk’s LGBTQ+ History Month. For Women’s History Month, The Suffolk Journal is honoring past female Suffolk University graduates and faculty who have paved the way for women at the university, and in traditionally male-dominated careers. When Gleason...

In the third part of this four-part series, which will come out in March, The Journal will showcase Suffolk’s first female students and staff in honor of Women’s History Month. When Black History Month comes to mind, most people think back to Martin Luther King Jr. speaking on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, or Rosa Parks refusing to rise from a seat at the front of a bus. But for this Black...

These graduates are only a handful of Suffolk firsts The Journal will present this semester. In the second part of this four-part series, which will come out next month, The Journal will showcase Suffolk’s first black students and staff in honor of Black History Month. To ring in the new decade— and The Suffolk Journal’s first edition of the semester— we’re throwing it back to some of Suffolk’s...