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Tag: #MeToo
News Roundup
Survey: 40% of Harvard Faculty Know a Sexual Harassment Victim in Their Department
According to a survey conducted by Harvard’s student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, 40% of respondents from the school’s faculty reported that they know a department colleague who has experienced sexual harassment. Meanwhile, 32% stated that they felt that the university’s Title IX office and Office for Dispute Resolution are “adequately equipped” to deal with sex- […]
March 10, 2020
News Roundup
Wellesley College Class of 2019 Selects Anita Hill as Commencement Speaker
Civil and women’s rights activist Anita Hill, whose voice has been widely used in academia, politics and in the media regarding gender, race and equality, has been named the commencement speaker for Wellesley College’s 141st commencement ceremony. Hill, a professor of social policy, law and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Brandeis University, is known […]
April 14, 2019
LGBTQ+
Faculty Bring Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies to LaGuardia Community College
With shifting notions of gender and sexuality, ongoing discussions about reproductive rights and the emergence of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, a cohort of faculty members at LaGuardia Community College (LAGCC) within the City University of New York system saw a need for a program that could provide students with an understanding of the systems and theories that shape the world around them.
December 13, 2018
News Roundup
Harvard University Faculty and Staff Required to Complete Sexual Assault Prevention Training Module
Harvard University provost Dr. Alan M. Garber  and executive vice president Katie N. Lapp announced in an email that all faculty and staff will take a sexual assault prevention training module. The training was created to remind Harvard’s faculty and staff about campus policy and resources and requires them to complete the 45-minute program by […]
November 5, 2018
African-American
Author Ntozake Shange Dead at 70
Playwright, poet and author Ntozake Shange, whose most acclaimed theater piece is the 1975 Tony Award-nominated play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,” died Saturday, according to her daughter. She was 70. Shange’s “For Colored Girls” describes the racism, sexism, violence and rape experienced by seven Black women. It has […]
October 28, 2018
Sports
Feminism, Womanism and Election 2018
As we stand a month away from the midterm elections, we do so as a record number of women of color are running for office. Congressional candidates like Rashida Tliab of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and Jahana Hayes of Connecticut. New Mexico’s Deb Haaland and Sharice Davids of Kansas are poised to become the first American Indian women ever elected to Congress. Their entry would come over 190 years after Hiram Revels of the Lumbee tribe was elected as the first African -American and first American Indian to enter the legislature.
October 12, 2018
Opinion
Increase in American Suicides Has Historical Roots
Recent research indicates that the recent rise in suicides across the nation can be attributed partly to historical social and psychological issues, including rural isolation and high veteran populations, pressure to live up to stereotypes, disillusion with the American dream and racism.
June 15, 2018
Latest News
Harvard Scholar Under Investigation Amid Allegations of Sexual Misconduct
Dr. Roland Fryer, Jr., who became the youngest African-American to win tenure as an economics professor at Harvard University in 2008, is now facing allegations of sexual misconduct and is under investigation by Harvard University and the state of Massachusetts.
May 29, 2018
News Roundup
More Colleges Host Women as Grad Speakers
This graduation season, the podium is all hers. For the first time in at least two decades, the majority of the nation’s top colleges are featuring women as their spring commencement speakers, a shift that industry experts credit to the wave of female empowerment that has fueled the #MeToo movement. Yale is bringing Hillary Clinton. […]
May 10, 2018
News Roundup
Amid #MeToo, More Colleges Host Women As Graduation Speakers
This graduation season, the podium is all hers. For the first time in at least two decades, the majority of the nation’s top colleges are featuring women as their spring commencement speakers, a shift that industry experts credit to the wave of female empowerment that has fueled the #MeToo movement. Yale is bringing Hillary Clinton. […]
May 9, 2018
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Cosby Conviction Dismantles Legacy, Dismays Scholars
Bill Cosby used his power and influence to elevate African-Americans on television in the 1980s and to promote education and HBCUs. His conviction Thursday of sex crimes leaves some scholars saddened and dismayed.
April 26, 2018
News Roundup
Times, New Yorker Win Pulitzer for Weinstein Scandal
NEW YORK — The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal with reporting that galvanized the #MeToo movement and set off a worldwide reckoning over sexual misconduct in the workplace. The Times and The Washington Post took the award in the […]
April 17, 2018
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