John Potts and Radical Student Activism
Black educator Dr. John Foster Potts may be a largely unknown figure today, but in Jim Crow-era South Carolina he
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Higher education
Women of Color and the Neoliberal University: An Interview with Lorgia García Peña Pt. 1
In today’s post, Hettie V. Williams interviews Dr. Lorgia García Peña, author of Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia
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Black Student Activism and the Origins of the Stanford Canon Debate
In the late 1980s, the Stanford University Black Student Union stood at the center of a controversy involving the school’s
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Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and the History Behind Colorblind Admissions
This month, the United States Supreme Court reconvenes to answer important legal questions, including a series of affirmative action cases.
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Lawrence Reddick and the Communal Acts of Black History
African American history has always been a communal act. From its inception in the nineteenth century, Black men and women,
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