Black History Month offers not only the occasion to consider the innumerable episodes in which Black figures and communities have shaped the story of America, but it also asks us to invert …
Read More >By Erika Mary Robb Larkins, author of The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil On the morning of February 8th, 2019, a police operation in the Fallet and Fogueteiro favelas, located on …
Read More >This guest post is published during the Western Society of Criminology conference, occurring in Honolulu from February 7-9. #WSC2019 By Elizabeth Brown, coauthor of Race and Crime: Geographies of Injustice with George Barganier Recently, …
Read More >On Feb. 26, 2012, just three weeks after his 17th birthday, Trayvon Martin was murdered. Today would have been his 24th birthday. The killing of Trayvon triggered a series of protests and inspired the …
Read More >“This idea that neighborhood preservation and neighborhood character mean ‘don’t allow apartments to be built, don’t allow renters to live here,’ has been maybe the single most destructive thing that has caused …
Read More >Preparing for the start of spring semester ultimately includes prepping lectures. In Learning from Each Other: Refining the Practice of Teaching in Higher Education editors Michele Lee Kozimor-King and Jeffrey Chin share a …
Read More >“We empower thinkers — we empower work that hopefully generates new ideas. And then our job is to take those ideas and publish them — disseminate them. We do this through the …
Read More >In the spirit of Human Rights Day and in light of the treatment of unaccompanied and separated minor immigrants around the world, we share an excerpt by Jacqueline Bhabha from Humanitarianism and …
Read More >Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10th—the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, 70 years ago today, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A milestone document, it proclaimed the inalienable …
Read More >By Michael Koncewicz , author of They Said No to Nixon: Republicans Who Stood Up to the President’s Abuses of Power “And to this day, I think the President had no choice. …
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