Independent journalist. Former fellow, Harvard's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. Former @Chronicle reporter.
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Trump's latest crackdown on diversity and inclusion programs "will only further divide an already fragmented nation,” one critic said. chronicle.com/article/trump-…
This HBCU President Joined a Covid-19 Vaccine Trial. His Call for More Volunteers Stirred Outrage. chronicle.com/article/this-h… (my conversation with @HipHopPrez)
Maryland Episcopal diocese commits $1 million toward reparations for slavery, racial injustice baltimoresun.com/maryland/bs…
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UMN needed to respond to a student's demand to cut ties with MPD after George Floyd's killing.
This story reveals that process. One UMN draft— “I join you in holding the MPD responsible” —cut to simply demand "accountability and justice for George Floyd”
chronicle.com/article/anatom…
.@DocMellyMel likened the campaign for a state law mandating #ethnicstudies to the civil rights fight against segregation: “We didn’t ask Woolworth’s to desegregate their own lunch counter. We needed government intervention.” chronicle.com/article/in-cal…
Opponents called the plan legislative meddling in academic affairs: “I can imagine if we were in a different state that we would be scared out of our wits by the idea that the legislature would be telling us what we should be teaching,” said @calstate trustee Rebecca Eisen.
Student & faculty activists won a victory in the national fight to diversify curricula Monday as @GavinNewsom signed a new law mandating that all undergrads @calstate, the country’s largest public-university system, must take #EthnicStudies: gov.ca.gov/2020/08/17/govern… #ab1460
California State U. Board Approves Ethnic-Studies Requirement That Dismays #EthnicStudies Professors. My report: chronicle.com/article/califo…
Ethnic-studies scholars portrayed the new requirement, and what they characterized as the sidelining of ethnic-studies faculty members in its creation, as a case study in the systemic racism faced by people of color.
Kenneth Monteiro, chair of the council representing #ethnicstudies faculty, said the chancellor has created a policy “to ensure that you don’t have to take a class about Black and brown people.”
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USC, June 2: “While we still have many details to work out, we are planning for an in-person fall semester.”
July 1: “...we are now recommending all undergraduates take their courses online, and reconsider living on or close to campus this semester.” view.comms.usc.edu/?qs=2034b…
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My latest is a look at DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, one of several Black women leading major US cities through a pandemic, an economic downturn, and a civil rights movement. bit.ly/3eCBvTW
Duke's @SandyDarity said he was “deeply skeptical about local or piecemeal actions to address various forms of racial inequality being labeled ‘reparations.’” nytimes.com/2020/07/16/us/re…
The U. of Mississippi has abandoned its plan to install new Confederate headstones in the cemetery to which its Confederate statue has been moved. The statement below implies that. I just confirmed with a spokesman that new headstones will not be erected. chancellor.olemiss.edu/updat…
Martha Robles began college as a struggling student. She will graduate this fall from @csunorthridge as a high-achieving student-activist who hopes to be a professor.
She traces her transformation to one Chicana/o-studies course. chroni.cl/393GtYQ
It wasn’t what the student government had envisioned when it voted to banish the Confederate statue from U. of Mississippi's front entrance to this run-down and isolated spot. In late-night video calls, @tyler_yarbs and other activists hashed out a plan to fight back.
Those are two stories from a collection of profiles of student activists written by @KatherineMangan and myself and edited by @RachelCMull.
Since U. of Minnesota's announcement, "at least 44 public and private universities in the United States have circulated petitions to remove police from their campuses": latimes.com/world-nation/sto…
Crews move Confederate monument at University of Mississippi after years of student activism mississippitoday.org/2020/07… via @GanucheauAdam
"What did it say about academic and political discourse more generally that whether the findings were true mattered less than whether they fit neatly into an ideological box?" writes @tebartl chronicle.com/article/The-Pr…
