College presidents worked both at the forefront and behind the scenes in fighting for African Americans’ civil rights in the 1960s.
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A trauma-informed approach to education can help educators acknowledge and address the adversities faced by Black and Indigenous students.
Poetry can unite people when all seems lost. The Conversation US has pulled together four articles from its archives that speak on the power of poetry.
Our food systems are failing to feed all of us.
In this episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, we pick apart what is broken and ways to fix it with two women who battle food injustice.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the problem of food insecurity for many people, especially racialized and Indigenous households.
Stories about alternative worlds can be a powerful way of critiquing the problems of our own world.
A hands-on approach to learning about bugs can help students from urban communities take an interest in science.
Few issues are as difficult to deal with in the classroom as slavery in the US. Here, a professor who trains teachers on how to present the topic offers some insights.
Meisha Ross Porter is the new chancellor of New York City’s public schools. A scholar of the politics of education touches on her background and what lies ahead.
‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ the best seller of the 19th century, is not a relic from the past. The complex Uncle Tom figure still has a hold over Black politics.
A study of the historical records describing African slaves in Brazil yields some unexpected findings.
Books can help children develop a sense of identity. But when characters of color are portrayed negatively, that can send a wrong message to kids.
It’s long been known that Black patrons of bars and restaurants tend to get worse service than white customers. What’s not been well understood is precisely why.
The outrage over the teen film ‘Cuties’ diverts attention from the social structures that enforce conflicting expectations on young women.
The authors argue South Asian immigrants to Canada have become complicit in the state’s racial and capitalist agendas.
Even as skin-whitening products rebrand, they are still selling racism under the guise of wellness and youth.
We want to be whitelisted and not blacklisted for jobs. White lies make stretching the truth okay, but you don’t want to receive a black mark on your record.
Recording and bearing witness to a Black person’s death from police violence is in itself traumatizing.
In the coronavirus pandemic, wearing a protective mask signifies a commitment to the social and collective good of society. But that changes when a face mask is worn by Black and racialized people.
As Black birdwatcher Christian Cooper learned in New York City’s Central Park, nature is seen as a white space and Black birdwatching as an aberration.
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Associate Dean (Arts and Humanities), Bucknell University
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Canada Research Chair, Professor in Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
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President, Food Secure Canada
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia
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Professor Emerita of Marketing, Menlo College
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Associate Professor of Critical Race Theory and Women and Health, Carleton University
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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Black Health Lead, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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PhD Candidate, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor of Special Education, Penn State
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Mary Louise Petersen Chair in Higher Education, University of Iowa
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Assistant Professor of Humanities, McMaster University
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Babson College
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Research Assistant Professor NYU Langone Health, Grossman School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Oakland University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Wayne State University
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James J. Stansell Associate Professor of Classics and Humanities, San Diego State University