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Racism

Photo: Melisa Osborne, a woman wearing a blue face mask and floral burgundy dress, leads a multi-disciplinary CAS class taking a look at the racism implicit in science and healthcare and trying to unpack it. She stands in front of a large lecture class room facing the class as she lectures.

Life Sciences

This BU Class Aims to Undo a History of Racism in Science and Healthcare

December 12, 2022

White supremacist nazis hang a sign over the 405 freeway reading "Kanye is right about the jews"

Anti-Semitism

With Anti-Semitism on the Rise, a New BU Course Takes Shape

November 10, 2022

Collage: (right) Cover of the book "Magnolia Flower". (left) Portrait of Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.

Teaching History

Ibram X. Kendi Wants Children, and Teachers, to Challenge How History Is Taught

October 30, 2022

Photo: Wooden crosses mark the graves of Izium residents killed by Russian occupiers during exhumation procedures at a mass burial site in Izium that was liberated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Russian troops, Kharkiv Region, northeastern Ukraine. Numerous mounds of dirt are marked by crosses in a wooded area. A tape is pulled across the scene, with Ukrainian writing on it.

Academics

BU Launches New Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Major

October 24, 2022

Dawn Belkin Martinez (center), a School of Social Work clinical associate professor, with graduate students Noor Toraif (CAS’16, SSW’23) (left) and Greer Hamilton (SSW’24), who worked with her to create a free online course on structural racism. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Academics

School of Social Work Offers Free Online Course for Understanding Structural Racism

October 11, 2022

Black and white photo: Eliza Davis of Cuba, Ala., and her eight children ranging in age from 5 to 17, weary and tired on their arrival in Hyannis, Mass. from the south, June 1, 1962. They stand in front of an old Greyhound bus as a white woman to their left looks on.

Racism

Six Decades after Reverse Freedom Rides, Ugly History Repeats

September 22, 2022

Photo taken from behind a Jewish worshipper as they sit in a synagogue. They wear a blue and white star of David kippah. The space is darkened but they are spotlighted.

Voices & Opinion

POV: Antisemitic Mapping Project Likely to Lead to More Anti-Jewish Violence

June 16, 2022

Collage: Composite image showing studio portraits of various Boston University faculty, staff, and students in three rows of three. From left to right, top to bottom, portraits show: Kaye-Alese Green, Jonathan Feingold, Nana Boateng, Saida Grundy, Amos Mwaura, Imara Joroff, Andre De Quadros, Andrea Taylor, and Amanda Bailey.

Community Voices

Two Years after George Floyd’s Murder, What’s Changed? What’s Next?

May 24, 2022

Photo of people praying, two young Black men and one White women, outside the scene of Saturday's shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022. Behind them, the TOPS supermarket sign is seen across the parking lot. Also in the parking lot a parked police van.

Voices & Opinion

POV: CFA Dean, a Buffalo Native, on How Shooter Exploited Housing Segregation to Find His Targets

May 17, 2022

Portrait of Bill T Jones, an older Black man with short white hair, wearing dark glasses, a black sweater. He looks focused and sincere, and touches his right shoulder. He poses in front of a purple background.

Dance

Legendary Dancer, Choreographer, and Director Bill T. Jones to Speak at BU on March 2

February 25, 2022

Photo of Dr. Angela Onwuachi-Willig - Dean of Ryan Roth Gallo & Ernest J. Gallo Professor of Law, BU School of Law at the SDO speaking at the podium during the Critical Race Theory (CRT) panel at Howard Thurman Center Feb 10. AOW wears a red jacket and has shoulder length locs.

Law

Defining, Not Debating, Critical Race Theory

February 12, 2022

photo of a stack of books burning in an empty dirt field.

Voices & Opinion

POV: Books Are Being Banned across the Country: Here’s What’s Really at Stake

February 1, 2022

Photo of parents protesting during a meeting of the Placentia Yorba Linda School Board in which they discussed a proposed resolution to ban it from being taught in schools. Parents hold signs that say "BAN CRT"

Voices & Opinion

POV: What the Public Doesn’t Get: Anti–Critical Race Theory Lawmakers Are Passing Pro-CRT Laws

December 3, 2021

Photo of Deborah Douglas along boston harbor. She wears a black leather jacket, has shoulder-length, crimson locs, and rests her hand on a large middle chain fence. Behind, the harbor at twilight is seen.

Antiracism

For BU’s Deborah D. Douglas, Leading The Emancipator Is Part of Her Life’s Mission

December 2, 2021

Disability

D&I Learn More Series Explores Disability in the Arts with Kristina Wong

November 10, 2021

Photo of James Schmidt, wearing a white face mask, and side-lit by a projector, as he lectures, with a clip from the classic 1959 movie Hiroshima Mon Amour projected on a screen behind him.

Humanities

Catastrophe & Memory

November 5, 2021

A portrait photo of Sandro Galea

Public Health

The Contagion Next Time: How to Fight a Future Pandemic

October 30, 2021

A protestor stands in front of the Houston Police Department headquarters holding a sign that says 'We Demand Police Accountability! Progressive Workers Organizing Committee.'

Voices & Opinion

POV: Why Thompson v. Clark Matters for Racial Justice

October 12, 2021

Photo of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi at What the Science Tells Us: Racial Health and Economic Inequities during the Pandemic Symposium presented by The BU Center for Antiracist Research in the Metcalf Hall October 1. He wears a blue suit and a patterned blue button down. He stands at the podium on stage and gestures with his hand as he speaks earnestly.

Race, Health & Economics

Message from Antiracism Symposium: “Move from Awareness to Action”

October 3, 2021

Photo of Ibram X. Kendi smiling. He has shoulder length locs that are pulled back, and he wears a blue suit, colorful pocket square, and light blue button up shirt. The portrait was taken outside, a building and a tree are blurred in the distance.

Accolades

Ibram Kendi, BU Center for Antiracist Research Founding Director, Wins 2021 MacArthur “Genius” Grant

September 28, 2021

Ibram Kendi, BU Center for Antiracist Research Founding Director, Wins 2021 MacArthur “Genius” Grant