Race is an issue that’s always simmering below the surface in South Africa. One of the ugliest aspects of the recent wave of looting and violence was the killing of people based on their…
By Rae Ellen Bichell and Cara Anthony Alphonso Harried recently came across a newspaper clipping about his grandfather receiving his 1,000th dialysis treatment. His grandfather later died — at a dialysis center —…
The tipping point for Dr. Paula Braveman came when a longtime patient of hers at a community clinic in San Francisco’s Mission District slipped past the front desk and knocked…
John A. Tures – Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College When Rev. Raphael Warnock prevailed in the special election on Jan. 5, he was the first African American from Georgia to win…
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…