Tag: Black Lives Matter
What’s behind the teacher strikes: Unions focus on social justice, not...
Rebecca Tarlau, Pennsylvania State University
For the past few years I’ve been studying teacher unions and teachers strikes throughout the Americas. My research has taken...
College-educated cops enforce the law more aggressively
Richard Wright, Georgia State University; Richard Rosenfeld, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Thaddeus L. Johnson, Georgia State University
In the wake of controversial and widely...
Three things we can learn from contemporary Muslim women’s fashion
Liz Bucar, Northeastern University
Major art museums have realized there is much to learn from clothing that is both religiously coded and fashion forward.
Earlier this...
Black student activists face penalty in college admissions
Ted Thornhill, Florida Gulf Coast University
Back when I taught at a predominantly white, selective liberal arts college, I came across a book called “Acting...
The fallout of police violence is killing black women like Erica...
Christen A. Smith, University of Texas at Austin
The sting of the premature death of 27-year-old Erica Garner, daughter of Eric Garner, is still fresh....
What Kwanzaa means for black Americans
Frank Dobson, Vanderbilt University
On Dec. 26, millions throughout the world’s African community will start weeklong celebrations of Kwanzaa. There will be daily ceremonies with...
Why police reforms rarely succeed: Lessons from Latin America
Yanilda González, University of Chicago
President Donald Trump’s appointment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions has led people to speculate about the fate of recent police...
EXPLORING NATURE
How pecans went from ignored trees to a holiday staple –...
Shelley Mitchell, Oklahoma State University
Pecans, America’s only native major nut, have a storied history in the United States....
