Spoken Word Performance Highlights Need for Racial Justice

Trina Rodriguez of the Office of Information Technology (OIT) shared her poem as part of OIT's DiversifyIT program. She wrote her first spoken word poem, “Who Could Understand the Plight of a Black Man?” and performed it last July during a virtual “Living (IT) While Black | Open Mic,” a program of DiversifyIT at Duke. DiversifyIT launched in 2015 to encourage Duke’s IT community to participate in advancing inclusion and diversity in the IT profession through networking, outreach and development opportunities. Read more and view her poem here. 

The graphic with the series was designed by Zaire McPhearson, an instructor in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies.