Contraction des mots « June » (juin) et « nineteenth » (dix-neuvième), le Juneteenth, qui marque l’émancipation des esclaves, est devenu un jour férié en 2021 aux États-Unis.
- Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Miami University
Enslaved people were not just enslaved physically, but mentally as well. as widespread laws in the South barred enslaved people from receiving an education.
Tighter federal borrowing limits may deepen inequities, especially for students from underrepresented backgrounds.
From civil rights to corporate boardrooms, efforts to expand inclusion have long shaped American life. What does research show about the returns – and limits – of today’s DEI programs?
Tariffs may sound tough, but America’s fentanyl crisis stems from a decades-long addiction problem that trade policy can’t fix.
Desde la inflación al aborto, pasando por la política exterior y la democracia, los candidatos a la presidencia de EE UU mantuvieron una dura pugna en el debate del martes. Dos expertos estadounidenses lo analizaron para The Conversation.
Que retiendront les électeurs, et spécialement les indécis ? Des déclarations de fond ou certaines petites phrases susceptibles de marquer les esprits ?
Da inflação ao aborto, política externa e democracia, os dois candidatos à presidência se enfrentaram ferozmente durante o debate no horário nobre. Dois acadêmicos - de raça e de jornalismo - avaliam a situação.
From inflation to abortion, foreign policy and democracy, the two presidential candidates went at it fiercely during their prime-time debate. Two scholars – of race and of journalism – weigh in.
At least one positive came out of the racial protests during the Vietnam War era – the emergence of Black studies programs on college campuses.
The death of O.J. Simpson rekindled memories of the racial divisions of his domestic violence case involving the murder of his former wife and her friend.
False ideas about the extinction of the white race, spread around the late 19th and early 20th centuries, gave rise to xenophobic and anti-immigration conspiracy theories.
Though the Civil Rights Act of 1964 officially ended racial discrimination in public places, relics of the Jim Crow South still haunt modern memory.
In the US, white men have long had the power to make decisions about women’s reproductive health care. Those decisions have often been especially harmful to Black women.
While a Florida curriculum implies that enslaved Africans ‘benefited’ from skills acquired through slavery, history shows they brought knowledge and skills to the US that predate their captivity.
At a time when state legislatures are enacting laws that restrict who, when and where people can vote, the US Supreme Court ruled to protect voting rights.
Throughout US history, a ‘white backlash’ has worked to keep Black officeholders and their constituents out of power. Atlanta DA Fani Willis is just the latest.
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