Charles Bell – Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Sciences, Illinois State University When “Mike,” the father of a ninth grade student, got a call from his daughter’s school, the first…
Wendy Chen – Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Texas Tech University Una Osili – Professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies; Associate Dean for Research and International Programs, Lilly Family School…
Written by Aniko Bodroghkozy – Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the…
Written by Eurie Dahn – Associate Professor of English, The College of Saint Rose Using punctuation and capitalization as a form of protest doesn’t exactly scream radicalism. But in debates…
Marlene Daut – Professor of African Diaspora Studies, University of Virginia Following the July 7, 2021 assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse and after one Haitian official requested that the…
Jill Vasbinder Senior Lecturer in Dance, University of Maryland, Baltimore County In January 2020, 14-year-old Jalaiah Harmon created what would become one of the biggest viral dance sensations on TikTok.…
A.D. Carson Assistant Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia Not long after the July 20, 1969, Moon landing, Gil Scott-Heron – a poet hailed as the “Godfather of Rap” – released…
By Liz Szabo Before the pandemic, 16-year-old Na’ryen Cayou had everything he needed. He had his own room. A partial scholarship to a boys’ prep school. A spot playing trombone in…
Written by Lisa D. Tinsley Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. It went into effect on January 1, 1863. In the Confederacy, slaves were…
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