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Moral Centrality in Educational Equity

Just last year in May of 2018, we witnessed the resurrection of Resurrection City as the new Poor People’s Campaign continued the fight against poverty, structural racism, voter suppression, militarism, and a host of others. This demonstration also spanned 40 days of community organizing with thousands of participants.

May 2, 2019

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Resistance Strategies for Black Graduate Students in Higher Education

Being a Black woman at a predominantly White institution (PWI), I experience simultaneously racialized and gendered encounters that leave me feeling anxious and incensed. The social justice spaces that I found in graduate school help me to navigate challenging experiences and to speak truth to power. I share this brief composition as a testament to the strategies of resistance that my peers, colleagues, faculty and I use to persist in higher education.

April 4, 2019

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Racial Equality, Social Justice Advocate Dr. Bill Jenkins Dies at 73

Dr. Bill Jenkins, an advocate for racial equality and social justice who tried to stop the Tuskegee syphilis experiment that utilized Black patients as guinea pigs, died recently at the age of 73. Jenkins worked as an epidemiologist battling racism in health care. The cause was due to complications of an inflammatory disease called sarcoidosis, according […]

March 4, 2019

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Dr. Elyse Hambacher: Teaching Social Justice

Dr. Elyse Hambacher hasn’t forgotten the many inequities she witnessed at her culturally diverse high school in Miami and how her concern about them inspired her to become a teacher educator with a passion for social justice.

January 30, 2019

A Revived “North Star” Emerges

Beginning next month, an updated North Star, founded by activist journalist Shaun King and edited by noted scholar Dr. Keisha Blain, will emerge online with content created by progressives seeking to agitate for justice in the spirit of Frederick Douglass and the movement he inspired.

January 14, 2019

Mutcherson Marks Three Major Firsts for Rutgers Law School in Camden

Noted bioethics and health law scholar Kimberly Mutcherson is the first woman, first African-American and first LGBT person to be named co-dean of Rutgers Law School in Camden.

January 3, 2019

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Solange, Black Women & Politics

Several years ago, when my political science colleagues and I were revising our curriculum, I made the argument that we needed to add to our required courses a class that focused on women and politics. Philander Smith College mission is centered on social justice, so it made sense that in our program that we would focus on communities that are often overlooked or understudied in the academy. Therefore we adopted this course along with Black politics and African politics as part of our core curriculum.

December 17, 2018

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Scholarship at the Intersection of History, Education and Blackness

Were it not for the social tumult in Chicago in the summer and fall of 1967, Dr. James D. Anderson likely would not have walked away from the joy of teaching high school social studies, found refuge in a Ph.D. program studying the history of education and transitioned to a career in higher education.

September 19, 2018

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Black Lives Matter Leader Joins Faculty at Prescott College

Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network is joining the faculty of the Social Justice and Community Organizing program at Prescott College, a small liberal arts college in Arizona. Cullors, an activist, artist, educator and the author of When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir will serve as […]

August 7, 2018

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TCUs: Saving Native American Education

Native Americans have the lowest educational attainment of any race. One of the ways in which mainstream institutions are failing them is by simply not addressing the values of Native American students.

July 19, 2018

Brian Murphy Set National Standard for Inclusion

Only the third president in the history of De Anza College, Dr. Brian Murphy has set a national standard not only for educational excellence, but also for a comprehensive commitment to social justice.

July 9, 2018

International Conference to Examine Urban Education

Teachers, researchers, community members and other educational stakeholders committed to supporting youth in urban environments will gather in Nassau, Bahamas in November for the third biennial International Conference on Urban Education.

July 3, 2018

He Said, He Said: Black Male Cross-Generational Conversations on Perspective, Place and Positionality

What began as an informal chat between college faculty member and undergraduate student morphed into a complex and multi-layered exploration of topics that challenged us both to think deeply about issues ranging from diversity, equity, identity, masculinity, positionality and social justice to Trump and Wakanda.

June 30, 2018

Neurodiversity: The Next Frontier in Social Justice

The scar on my thigh reminds me of the day I almost gave up my career as a teacher. I now dedicate my career to helping children and adults with learning and behavioral challenges. These learners are the next frontier in social justice.

May 17, 2018

Renowned Social Justice Expert Is Optimistic About the Possibilities

Maya Wiley came to understand social injustice at a young age, partly by listening directly to the stories of poor Black women on public assistance in her hometown of Washington, D.C. Her career as a civil rights attorney and now a university professor and administrator has catapulted her to national acclaim.

March 19, 2018

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ACPA Targets Race and Social Justice in Higher Education

HOUSTON – Members of ACPA-College Student Educators International are examining their roles in social justice work and race equality within the ranks of higher education as they gather for their annual convention this week.

March 12, 2018

Assessing the Relationship Between Gun Violence and Health Equity

Gun violence has become a crucial national problem that negatively affects health equity in the United States. The American Medical Association has declared U.S. gun violence a public health crisis requiring a comprehensive public health response and solution.

March 8, 2018

New NAACP Youth Leader a Skilled Organizer

Tiffany Dena Loftin arrived this month as the NAACP’s new director of the Youth & College Division at a critical – even urgent – time when many young African-Americans are clamoring for ways to get involved in social justice movements to resist violence and oppression.

February 21, 2018

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