African American studies 
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SOURCE: Boston Review
9/7/2021
Toni Morrison's Vision of Justice Was an Ethos of Care
by Farah Jasmine Griffin
"What does justice look like for centuries of systemic abuse and violence enacted by a society built upon withholding justice from Black people? In all of her novels Toni Morrison contemplates the nature and practice of justice."
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/8/2021
Cornel West Is Leaving Harvard After Tenure Dispute
Dr. West’s dispute over tenure put a new focus on complaints that Black and Latino professors are underrepresented in the ranks of tenured professors, not just at Harvard.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
What Does African American Studies Need to Thrive?
A recent eruption of dissention in UCLA's African American Studies department arguably reflects the strains caused by poor institutional support by the university, an issue faced by Black Studies departments on many campuses.
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SOURCE: Paris Review
10/5/2020
Memory Haunts: John Edgar Wideman's Fictionalized Account of the 1985 MOVE Bombing
by Imani Perry
Wideman's account of events leading to the bombing of MOVE by Philadelphia police "is not just a map of the city but of the nation and our collective condition."
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
11/22/2019
The Black Shoals: A New Book Theorizing Formations of Black and Native Studies
by J. T. Roane
An interview with Tiffany Lethabo King, author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Duke University Press, 2019).
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SOURCE: NPR Codeswitch
3/21/19
The Student Strike That Changed Higher Ed Forever
50 years ago, studying the history and culture of any people who were not white and Western was considered radical.
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SOURCE: ctpost
3-25-18
Text chosen for Connecticut school’s African American History course stirs controversy
But what may be more interesting is that only 2 school districts in the country require all students starting to take a half-year course in African-American Studies, Caribbean/Latin-American Studies or Perspectives on Race to graduate.
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SOURCE: Missoulian
10-5-17
Montana professor finds racially-charged flyer on African-American studies program board
A flier for his course – “White Supremacy History/Defeat” – was changed to read: “Black Nationalism History/Defeat.”
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SOURCE: Yale Daily News
1-25-16
Yale professor redesigns syllabus after campus protests
African American Studies professor Matthew Jacobson says the chants of the students offered a perfect structure for his class on “Politics and Culture of the American ‘Color Line.’ "
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SOURCE: Evanston Patch
1-10-13
Prolific author, Northwestern professor Jan Carew dies at 92
Northwestern University issued the following obituary of former professor Jan Carew, who died Dec. 6:Jan Carew, professor emeritus of African American studies at Northwestern University, died Dec. 6 in Louisville, Kentucky. He was 92.Professor of African American Studies from 1973 to 1987, Carew was described as the “quintessential Renaissance Man – an author, historian, internationalist, public intellectual, social justice activist and pioneer in experimenting with sustainable lifestyles for people of color.”Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American studies and professor of history at Northwestern, said Carew was an important leader of Black studies....
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