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Baya Burgess

Call to Williamsburg

The Get Ready Ritual

Baya Burgess

Call to Williamsburg

The Get Ready Ritual

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Call to Williamsburg

The Get Ready Ritual

Rahimi facetimes her friend, a DJ in Texas, about the upcoming show. Rahimi is the second youngest competitor and the only woman and joked that it will give her an advantage. “I’m like young and lit,” she said.

Team Lead Emma Russin watches KU sailors race each other from the coach's boat at Perry Lake on Sept. 21, 2024

Alexis Redwine, a University of Kansas teaching assistant, leads an organic chemistry lab in Gray-Little Hall on March 7. A study by researchers at KU found that women have been more likely to join STEM programs with female faculty and staff.

Models do hair and makeup in the bathroom before walking the runway at the Spencer Museum of Art on Sept. 19, 2024.

College students eat pizza on the curb in front of The Wheel at 1 a.m. on March 1, 2024.

KU Freshman and the drummer for Mopsy, Huck Langford, rehearses in Bassist Sout Matthews' basement on April 23, 2024. Matthews made the drawing on the right four months ago when she came up with their band's name and incidentally chose a pink pen. “

Students celebrate African and Caribbean cultures at Afro Prom in the Union on April 6, 2024.

Ayana Dewy closes the afrofuturism themed gala with a song on Oct. 17.

Amaya Hawkins does Folake Ojo's makeup in the Spencer Museum of Art on the University of Kansas campus on Sept. 19. The models prepared to walk in a fashion show by Alpha Couture, a collection of student designers, in the museum bathroom and confere

The Nupes, members of a University of Kansas Black fraternity, host a Halloweekend party at a downtown Lawrence bar on Nov. 2. Dancers at these parties channel a long history of twerking, grinding and strolling, a step-influenced dance that members

Bridgit Duffin dances at the Granada on Sept. 6.

Dallas Williams watches the Chiefs play the 49ers at Leroy's Tavern on Feb. 11. The Chiefs won 25-22 in overtime.

Keni Albright steams her dress in the Alpha Chi Omega sorority bathroom before Spring Formal on May 2, 2024.

The Lawrence Homeless Response Team walks through one of Lawrence’s largest homeless camps the day of its closure, a decision made by the City of Lawrence that ignited debate, on Oct. 15 behind the train station in East Lawrence. Most residents were

Bryce Davis, left, and Jon Sabillón prepare to go on stage before the show on Nov. 14.

Yulisia Parker gets ready for Halloweekend at her apartment on Nov. 2.

Helenna Shcherbinin, left, Tangos at tango club on Oct. 3. Shcherbinin used to be a competetive ballroom dancer and joined this club as a part of her effort to try as many campus activities as possible before graduating in the spring.