Four weeks before Thanksgiving, FMO held a thrift event that connected students with Black clothing vendors in Evanston, bridging a gap between the Evanston and Northwestern communities and creating a broader sense of kinship for students on campus.

In its May 2003 issue, BlackBoard published a review of Assata: An Autobiography, written by then-junior Sonia Nelson. In tribute to Assata's death, BlackBoard’s Editor-in-Chief Atarah Israel revisits the book 22 years later.