A Black curriculum designed to help students think critically about social hierarchies is being stifled by right-wing politics.
Dr. Luke Tripp
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Academic curriculum is a racial battlefield
Right-wing policy institutes, media outlets and politicians are conniving to stifle antiracist educational projects.
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Blackness and the Super Bowl
The NFL is a cartel of 32 corporations owned by non-Black billionaires. The billionaire owners employ super-talented football players, about 70 percent of whom are Black.
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Using ‘race’ to challenge Native sovereignty
The purpose of Indian Child Welfare Act is to extend protections to children based on tribal citizenship, not racial status.
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The illusion of diversity and the reality of Whiteness
White flight to gated suburbs, wide-scale White abandonment of public schools, and opposition to affirmative action are concrete evidence that many Whites do not truly value racial diversity.
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The political and structural context of the police murder of George Floyd
George Floyd’s death represents the everyday inhuman racist treatment of people of color in the United States. This case is socially and politically explosive.
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St. Cloud council member joins Trump to block refugees
St. Cloud City Council Member Jeff Johnson submitted a resolution calling for a temporary ban on resettlement of refugees in St. Cloud. This move appears to be in accord with President Trump’s plans to cap refugee admissions to the United States at 45,000 over the next year. Johnson’s resolution is an action associated with the […]
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Black youth as change agents
A Black high school student circulated a petition to remove a statue of confederate general Robert E. Lee, which prompted the city of Charlottesville to remove it. That decision ignited the fury of extreme militant White supremacist groups who responded to the call of White Nationalist Richard Spencer to the “Unite the Right” march. Black […]