Biden’s restoring what Trump stole from LGBTQ Americans
“In the first hours and days of the Biden administration, something precious has been returned to us. That invaluable thing that has been restored to LGBTQ Americans — and many others — is hope.”
What President Biden’s LGBTQ Executive Order Does and Doesn’t Do
“It is now the policy of this administration that ‘[e]very person should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear, no matter who they are or whom they love.'”
Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman Has Speech and Auditory Processing Disorders—Here’s What That Means
Plus, how she overcame them to deliver her moving poem, “The Hill We Climb.”
Poet Amanda Gorman Made History With Her Inauguration Speech
The Youth Poet Laureate read her piece “The Hill We Climb” written especially for the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Amanda Gorman reminds us that poetry is not a luxury
“The purifying power of poetry has existed as long as humans have wielded words. And for women especially, as [Audre] Lorde said, poetry ‘is a vital necessity of our existence.'”
Angela Onwuachi-Willig among Five Black Women Law Deans Honored for Efforts to Bring Antiracist Reform to Legal Education
Together, they launched a project to engage law schools in fight for racial justice.
Holding BU to Account on Race
Hayden Scholar Delice Nsubayi helped UMOJA, BU’s Black student union, become a powerful voice for racial equity.
St. Mary’s College of Maryland unveils memorial to enslaved people on its campus
From Absence to Presence: The Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Sothern Maryland, a commemorative slave quarter created to honor the enslaved peoples of southern Maryland stands on the St. Mary’s College of Maryland campus.
What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In?
Prof. Loretta J. Ross is combating cancel culture with a popular class at Smith College.
Teaching Racial Justice Isn’t Racial Justice
There is a place for education in the fight against racism, but we shouldn’t confuse it for the fight itself.