Malika Jeffries-EL: Expanding Graduate Education’s Career Opportunities, and Its Diversity
New GRS associate dean for graduate education reflects on its future amid the COVID-19 pandemic and America’s racial reckoning.
The Oscars’ New Diversity Rules Are Sweeping but Safe
Although the initiative is meant to encourage major changes, the best-picture qualifications aren’t as strict as they may seem.
How to Make a Less Racist, More Inclusive Job Listing
You may think your job listing sounds welcoming to people of color, but the wording can send a different signal.
Winning the Right to Vote Was the Work of Many Lifetimes
It took generations of women — mothers and daughters, leaders and followers — to secure the 19th Amendment.
For Black Suffragists, the Lens Was a Mighty Sword
Photographs of generations of Black suffragists offer invaluable documents about their thwarted and central roles in the history of women’s rights.
All My Pronouns
How I learned to live with the singular “they”.
Together You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation
“Though I am gone, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe.” Congressman John Lewis asked the New York Times to publish and op-ed on the day of his funeral.
Selma Helped Define John Lewis’s Life. In Death, He Returned One Last Time.
The body of Mr. Lewis was taken across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where, in 1965, he helped guide hundreds of people marching for voting rights. They were attacked by state troopers wielding clubs and tear gas.
You’ve Been Called Out for a Microaggression. What Do You Do?
As a person who wants to be a good ally to your colleagues of color and members of underrepresented groups, how do you apologize after you’ve committed a microaggression? And what’s the best way to ensure that you do better in the future?
A Day of Collective Engagement: Racism and Antiracism, Our Realities and Our Roles
We are in the midst of one of the most significant human rights moments of our lifetimes. It is not a time to stand on the sidelines. As a university dedicated to knowledge and truth, we feel it is the responsibility of our entire community to learn, think, and act in pursuit of social justice. […]