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On the occasion of her Platinum Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth released her 2022 Birthday Honours List on June 1, and among those to receive special honors was UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor of the Arts Isaac Julien, who was granted knighthood. The Queen’s Honours List noted that Julien had received his knighthood for services to diversity […]
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A University of Central Florida (UCF) professor who was fired after controversial tweets about “Black privilege” in the wake of George Floyd’s death has to be reinstated, according to an arbitrator. “If Afr. Americans as a group, had the same behavioral profile as Asian Americans (on average, […]
UB visiting French professor Mame-Fatou Niang has lived through the challenges of racism her entire life. For years, she never saw anyone who looked like her in the media, much less celebrated in French culture. Her attempts to fight racism have landed her on a list titled “363 Islamo-leftists that need to be targeted” in […]
UConn history professor Manisha Sinha is among 180 Guggenheim Fellows named last month, putting her in a prestigious category alongside only nine other UConn faculty members in the last 50 years. The 2022 fellowship class comprises artists and scholars from throughout the United States and Canada and includes those whose expertise varies from the natural […]
Samuel Kim was in fifth grade when he realized he wasn’t white. Born to first-generation Korean Americans, he grew up in Columbus, Georgia, a city with few Asians. His teacher once told students to stand on the basis of race as he counted the white and Black pupils. Kim looked at his hands and stood […]
A prolific and impactful scholar whose work has risen to the pinnacle of African American Studies has been named Florida State University’s 2022-2023 Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor. Maxine Montgomery, a professor in the English Department since 1988, has earned the highest honor FSU’s faculty can bestow on a colleague. FSU Student Union:
Several national law student associations are calling for Amy Wax, a University of Pennsylvania Law School professor who for years has espoused openly racist rhetoric, to be suspended from campus and prevented from speaking to students. The National Black Law Students Association, the National Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, and the North American South […]
WASHINGTON – Justin Hansford, professor of law and director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center, has been elected by the United Nations General Assembly to the U.N. Permanent Forum on People of African Descent for the 2022-2024 term. This newly established forum is one of only two permanent forums established by The U.N. and […]
Last year, Stephen Buescher was in the audience of the San Diego Rep’s Black Voices Reading Series, the theater company’s annual festival featuring works by current Black playwrights that display a range of Black voices, stories, and experiences, and also allow for discussions around the topics raised in the plays. This year, Buescher is directing […]
Professor Dame Sue Black carrying out an examination of remains at Kirkhill’s Wardlaw Mausoleum. To celebrate International Women’s Day, Tuesday, March 8. High Life Highland will be talking to world-renowned anatomist and forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black. Highland Archive Service community engagement officer Lorna Steele-McGinn, well known for her Learn with Lorna series, will […]