Tag: Black Americans
What is Afrofuturism? An English professor explains
Julian C. Chambliss, Michigan State University
The new sci-fi musical “Neptune Frost,” set in a Rwandan village constructed with...
What is alopecia? It’s no laughing matter for millions of Black...
Danita Peoples, Wayne State University
The Oscar slap that overshadowed the Academy Awards ceremony was sparked by a joke...
Why addressing racism against Black women in health care is key...
Nabila El-Bassel, Columbia University
Forty years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Black women continue to bear the highest burden of...
Racial discrimination is linked to suicidal thoughts in Black adults and...
Janelle R. Goodwill, University of Chicago
Frederick Douglass is regarded as one of the most prominent abolitionists the world...
Pain of police killings ripples outward to traumatize Black people and...
Denise A. Herd, University of California, Berkeley
It’s been one year since George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police...
Revisiting reparations: Is it time for the US to pay its...
Anne C. Bailey, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Some 156 years after the end of the Civil...
New teachers mistakenly assume Black students are angry
Alison Cooke, North Carolina State University; Amy Halberstadt, North Carolina State University, and Pamela Watkins Garner, George Mason University
The Research Brief is a short...
2020 uprisings, unprecedented in scope, join a long river of struggle...
Matthew Countryman, University of Michigan
The river was the metaphor that best captured “the long, continuous movement” of the black freedom struggle for theologian, historian...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
