Engaging Race: Black Girls Matter
Currents in conversations series on the new report: "Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected"
Currents in conversations series on the new report: "Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected"
Anchored by Khalil Muhammad, Executive Director of the Schomburg Center in Black Culture (of the New York Public Library), the forum, titled "Engaging Race: On Violence, Citizenship, and Social Justice,” is inspired by recent events in Charleston, South Carolina. But the Charleston massacre is but one catalyst for engaging a range of issues emerging in its wake. Among these, by no means new to this hour, are: the underreported escalation of black church burnings over the last several weeks, the controversy surrounding the Confederate flag, and the unabated instances of police brutality
Major symposium on the question of reparations organized in 2013
Panel Discussion on the debt ceiling
"Choice" has become the buzz word across the policy spectrum, especially in housing, schools, and health care. This talk questions the assumptions, ideology and philosophy undergirding public school choice, using data from two projects. The first focuses on how black community leaders work with whites to bring "choice" schools to a gentrifying black neighborhood in Chicago.
We at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies are excited to celebrate our Thirtieth Anniversary. Founded in 1981 as the Institute for African American Research, it was renamed a year later in honor of Virginia native, Carter G. Woodson. Armstead L.
Major symposium on the burgeoning field of carceral studies organized in 2009