Studies
In 2016, British investigative journalist Simon Rogers created a map/timeline of Twitter hashtags associated with Black Lives Matter. The map (which as of July 2023 can no longer be found on the Internet) indirectly shows both the intensity of Black Lives Matter protests and their geographic scope. Within the United States, we see protest activity […]
What role for US extended deterrence in Northeast Asia under Trump?  International Institute for Strategic Studies Source link
Georgia’s superintendent of schools seemingly reversed course Wednesday following backlash over the state’s refusal to provide funding for a new Advanced Placement class in African American Studies. In a statement, Richard Woods said the state will provide funding to districts that use a course . . .
ATLANTA — Georgia state Superintendent Richard Woods said Wednesday that the state will pay for districts to teach a new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies, a day after he said districts could only teach the course using local funds. In the face of blossoming outrage, the Georgia Department of Education now says districts […]
In a reversal, Georgia now says districts can use state funding to teach AP Black studies classes The Associated Press Source link
FILE – Georgia Superintendent of Schools Richard Woods speaks to reporters, Jan. 5, 2024, in Atlanta. Woods, an elected Republican, is refusing to provide state funding for the new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, File) ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia is refusing to provide state funding for the new Advanced Placement […]
Shani Mott, a scholar of Black studies at Johns Hopkins University whose examinations of race and power in America extended beyond the classroom to her employer, her city and even her own home, has died in Baltimore. She was 47. She died of adrenal cancer on March 12, said her husband, Nathan Connolly, a professor […]
Books and literature of poet Langston Hughes are seen at the African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey in Newtonville, N.J. If right-wing book banners have their way, many of these titles will be unavailable to young people across the country. | Charles J. Olson / The Daily Journal A little over a year […]
Maurice Cowley teaches AP AfAm at McDaniel High School, in Portland, Ore. At the start of the school year, he asks his students what they already know. Their answer? Enslavement and civil rights. Or, in other words, Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King Jr. Maurice Cowley Credit: Mark Graves/The Oregonian That was Kimora Worthey’s experience, […]
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