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  • Published on Feb 20, 2021

    Cornel West threatens to leave Harvard after being denied request for tenure

    “If I cannot be put up for tenure, then it is clear they don’t think I’m worthy of tenure. And I will go,” said the professor. Cornel West may be leaving Harvard University, again. Read More: Cornel West almost convinced Tucker Carlson to embrace …

    Source: Yahoo! Voices - Uncategorized
  • Published on Feb 18, 2021

    How To Decolonize Art Criticism

    Are people still interested in reading about art?  The rise of Instagram and demise of print publications might suggest that the days of the learned art reader are behind us. No need to subscribe to a high-brow magazine when that #artsy selfie your friend …

    Source: New Haven Independent - Connecticut - Neutral
  • Published on Feb 21, 2021

    VHS Tapes Are Worth Money

    Michael Myerz, 29, an experimental hip-hop artist in Atlanta, who has a modest collection of VHS tapes, finds the medium inspirational. Some of what Mr. Myerz seeks in his work, he said, is to replicate the sounds from “some weird, obscure movie on VHS I …

    Source: The New York Times - Neutral
  • Published on Feb 3, 2021

    2021 Kentucky Writer's Hall of Fame

    Nikky Finney, winner of some of poetry’s most prestigious prizes and an essential American voice on such subjects as Black history, social justice and the power of community, is the newest living inductee into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame. Finney, 63, …

    Source: Kentucky Monthly - Neutral
  • Published on Jan 16, 2021

    Carol Anderson: White Rage Sparked Capitol Attack

    Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies Carol Anderson explained how white rage contributed to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol at a panel hosted by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF), a think tank with the purpose of …

    Source: The Emory Wheel - Georgia - Neutral
  • Published on Jan 8, 2021

    As Calls For Trump's Removal Increase, What Happens Next?

    Calls grow for the President’s removal, from top Democrats and at least one Republican. In a special edition of On Point, we’ll make sense of chaos and insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. How can we restore the health of our democracy? Guests Stephen …

    Source: WBAA-NPR - Public Broadcaster
  • Published on Jan 5, 2021

    Carpe Diem on Faculty Hiring?

    Yale University says it is doing more hiring this academic year than it planned during the pandemic. But that falls short of the hiring activity that faculty members want to see: in a months-long campaign, they’ve argued that hiring freezes during COVID-19 …

    Source: Inside Higher Ed - Neutral
  • Published on Jun 20, 2019

    Adelaide Cromwell (Hon.’95), Founder of BU’s African American Studies Program, Dies at 99

    It isn’t every professor who can study her own heritage. Classicists aren’t ancient Greeks; computer scientists aren’t, well, machines. But sociologist Adelaide Cromwell (Hon.’95), scion of an African American family of overachievers, forged a …

    Source: Boston University - Neutral
  • Published on Dec 23, 2020

    How 2020 Will Go Down in the History Books, According to Historians

    It’s no question that 2020 has been a historic year for the U.S., but how it will affect the future remains to be seen. In an effort to take stock of where this year fits into history so far, TIME asked historians nationwide to pick a moment in 2020 that …

    Source: TIME Magazine - Neutral
  • Published on Oct 21, 2020

    The Souls of Black Professors

    As colleges and universities issued statement after statement this year affirming that Black lives matter, many Black faculty members remained unimpressed with mere words of support -- at once dubious and hopeful that this moment might lead to real, …

    Source: Inside Higher Ed - Neutral
  • Published on Oct 20, 2020

    The Dystopian Police State the Trump Administration Wants

    The commission also recommends that police departments be granted back door access to encrypted cellphones. This would make it easier for authorities to access the most intimate details of your life. Whom you spend time with, your private messages, your …

    Source: The New York Times - Neutral
  • Published on Oct 19, 2020

    Cornel West: 'George Floyd's public lynching pulled the cover off who we really are'

    Cornel West is a thinker. Readers of Prospect magazine recently voted him the world’s fourth-best thinker. And right now he is thinking about 3 November, and whether the United States will reject or endorse Donald Trump. No one knows what will happen; not …

    Source: The Guardian - Neutral
  • Published on Oct 7, 2020

    Claudia Rankine on Black Lives Matter, Naomi Osaka and justice for all

    On the Shelf Just Us: An American Conversation By Claudia Rankine Graywolf Press: 352 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Uncontained fires spewing …

    Source: Los Angeles Times - California - Neutral
  • Published on May 22, 2018

    Angela Bassett Receives Third Degree From Yale University

    Angela Bassett just keeps winning. The Oscar-nominated actress received an honorary doctorate degree from her alma mater, Yale University, on Monday (May 21). Bassett is one of Yale’s 10 honorary degree recipients for the year 2018. Bassett’s Doctorate of …

    Source: Billboard.com - Uncategorized
  • Published on Sep 30, 2020

    Some classics translations skirt conversations about race, Yale professor says

    Students study translated texts from the Greek philosopher Aristotle in many political science and classics courses across the world. But Emily Greenwood, professor of classics and African American studies at Yale University, said some of these …

    Source: The Pitt News - Pennsylvania - Left-wing
  • Published on Sep 25, 2020

    Trump rode to power on the wings of one of the most malignant and ugly lies in American history: Bill Moyers

    In this web exclusive, Bill Moyers and four historians dissect the big lie Trump rode to power: the Birther lie. Nell Painter, historian and Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, at Princeton University; Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of …

    Source: Raw Story - Left-wing
  • Published on Sep 23, 2020

    How Do Lawmakers Move Forward in Police Reform Discussions? Even Researchers Don't Know the Answer

    Washington lawmakers seem to agree that when it comes to policing, some changes need to be made. But when it comes to solutions, even researchers don't know the answer. In a House Public Safety Committee hearing Tuesday, legislators heard from …

    Source: Nisqually Valley News - Washington - Neutral
  • Published on Oct 28, 2020

    British Academy announces Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands' by Hazel V Carby as winner of GBP25,000 Nayef Al-...

    The British Academy, the UK's national academy for humanities and social sciences, announced on Tuesday, in an online celebration, that the winner of this year's GBP25,000 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding is 'Imperial …

    Source: M2 - Uncategorized
  • Published on Oct 27, 2020

    Carby's 'exceptional' history of British Empire scoops £25,000 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize

    Hazel V Carby has won the British Academy’s £25,000 non-fiction book prize, the 8th Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, for her book examining the legacies of British imperialism in the UK and Jamaica. Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of …

    Source: The Bookseller - Neutral
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