Tag: black lives matter
Highlights from our Reddit AMA with Professor Fabio Rojas
March 1, 2017 | Post
Dr. Rojas is a Professor of Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington, and the author of From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline (2007, The Johns Hopkins University Press). More recently, he is also the author of Theory for the Working Sociologist (2017, Columbia University Press). His research has focused on organizational behavior, political sociology, higher education, and health policy.
Reddit AMA with Fabio Rojas, Professor of Sociology at Indiana University
February 17, 2017 | Post
Join us for a conversation with Professor Rojas on Reddit this Monday, February 20th, at 2:00pm EST, where you can ask him anything!
Finally, a libertarian defense of identity politics
January 3, 2017 | Post
Identity politics, usually portrayed as a spectre haunting liberalism, is actually key to understanding uprisings against state power.
Why police brutality laws don’t seem to matter in America
November 30, 2016 | Post
We’re learning that while laws against police brutality exist, they don’t seem to be enforced.
The Week in Review: #BlackLivesMatter, African American History, and The Syrian Ceasefire Dissolves
September 23, 2016 | Post
This week brought us more than just the first day of Fall. Check out this week’s links below to get caught up. The city of Charlotte, North Carolina has declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew in response to protests in the wake of another black man fatally shot by police. This week’s […]
Colin Kaepernick's Protest Is What Makes America Unique
September 22, 2016 | Post
Kaepernick is engaging in a uniquely American way of making his belief’s known. He’s standing up for a cause he believes in, and in doing so he is using his platform and privilege to amplify an important message. For this he should be celebrated and defended, not shouted down and diminished.