2020 Dr. John Hope Franklin Winner

Meet Frank Wu, A Dr. John Hope Franklin Award Recipient

During his childhood, Frank Wu planned on being an architect. His parents even bought him a drafting table at a garage sale. But as a teenager, a local hate crime and homicide in Detroit changed his mind. With Detroit being known as the “motor city,” residents depended on the larger automobile companies for employment. After […]

Meet Kimberlé Crenshaw, a Dr. John Hope Franklin Award Recipient

Dr. Crenshaw famously coined the term “intersectionality” in 1989 to describe how race, gender, class and other individual characteristics intersect, when she published an article titled, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” in the University of Chicago Legal Forum.

Kimberle Crenshaw

Meet Dr. Walter R. Allen, A Dr. John Hope Franklin Award Recipient

When Dr. Walter R. Allen takes on a research project, there must always be a larger purpose — something he discusses with graduate students and young academics. According to Allen, African American scholars cannot live in an ivory tower. All research — including his more than 150 publications — must, in some way, illuminate the challenges that communities of color face.

Walter Allen UCLA Sept 15

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