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Tag: Jelani Cobb
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Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research and Boston Globe’s Opinion Team to Bring Back Antislavery Newspaper, The Emancipator
Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research and The Boston Globe‘s opinion team are resurrecting the U.S.’s first antislavery newspaper, The Emancipator, founded more than 200 years ago. “Just as 19th-century abolitionist newspapers hastened abolition, this project will amplify critical voices, ideas, and evidence-based opinion in an effort to reframe the national conversation and hasten racial […]
March 16, 2021
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AAC&U Conference Focuses on Higher Education’s Role in Addressing Structural Racism
Higher education leaders from across the country gathered to participate in the first day of the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ (AAC&U) 2021 Virtual Meeting.
January 20, 2021
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St. Mary’s to Host Virtual Dedication for Its Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland
With plans to build a stadium on campus, state law and regulations first required St. Mary’s College of Maryland to undergo an archaeological dig of the land. During the summer of 2016, alongside staff and students, Dr. Julia King, professor of anthropology at St. Mary’s, surveyed the area and found evidence of slave quarters. Now, RE: site, a design firm, has been chosen to build the “Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland.”
November 18, 2020
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