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‘Fight for it:’ Nikole Hannah-Jones on abolition, reparation, and building a more just future
Sarah J. Jackson and Nikole Hannah-Jones at the 2023 MLK Lecture in social justice

“You can’t get a colorblind society until you’ve addressed all of the effects of a race-specific society,” said Nikole Hannah-Jones in conversation with Sarah J. Jackson. “What the 1619 Project is trying to do is to really complexify and subvert these myths about America.” (Image: Eddy Marenco)

‘Fight for it:’ Nikole Hannah-Jones on abolition, reparation, and building a more just future

Nikole Hannah-Jones, award-winning journalist and author of the 1619 Project, delivered the 22nd annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice on Jan. 25 in conversation with Sarah Jackson of the Annenberg School for Communication.

Kristina García

John L. Jackson Jr. named Penn’s next provost
John L. Jackson Jr.

John L. Jackson Jr.

(Image: Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania)

John L. Jackson Jr. named Penn’s next provost

The Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Richard Perry University Professor will begin his appointment on June 1, 2023.

Five things to know about this year’s ‘tripledemic’
two young people wearing lie under a blanket on a couch, looking sick

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Five things to know about this year’s ‘tripledemic’

The Perelman School of Medicine’s E. John Wherry and Scott Hensley discuss the season’s confluence of COVID-19, influenza, and RSV and how our bodies are responding.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Matthew Levendusky and Kathleen Hall Jamieson on democracy amid crises
The U.S. Capitol is seen reflected in a puddle in Washington, just before sunrise, on Jan. 6, 2022, on the one year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The U.S. Capitol reflected in a puddle in Washington, D.C. just before sunrise on Jan. 6, 2022, on the one year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. (Image: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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    • Matthew Levendusky and Kathleen Hall Jamieson on democracy amid crises

    A new book by a team of scholars—including Matthew Levendusky of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Kathleen Hall Jamieson—analyzes the crises surrounding the 2020 election and its aftermath.

    Kristen de Groot

    Sophia Rosenfeld and Peter Struck discuss 2,800 years of ideas through history
    Sophia Rosenfeld and Peter Struck.

    Sophia Rosenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, and Peter Struck, professor of classical studies. (Images: Winky Lewis; Lisa J. Godfrey)

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    • Sophia Rosenfeld and Peter Struck discuss 2,800 years of ideas through history

    The Penn Arts & Sciences professors discuss editing their new book series, “A Cultural History of Ideas.”

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    Whole-genome analysis offers clarity about remains of 36 enslaved Africans in 18th-century Charleston
    Four people kneel outside in front of a memoerial plaque, each person with one hand touching it. The words "African Burial Ground ca. 1750-1800" are visible.

    Anson Street African Burial Ground (ASABG) members (from left) Theodore Schurr of Penn, Joanna Gilmore of ASABG and the College of Charleston, Raquel Fleskes of the University of Connecticut, and La'Sheia Oubré of ASABG at the memorial plaque at the site where the Ancestors were re-buried. (Image: Servant Emannuel Branch)

    Whole-genome analysis offers clarity about remains of 36 enslaved Africans in 18th-century Charleston

    Building on previous work from the community-initiated Anson Street African Burial Ground project, a team of researchers from Penn led a community-engaged collaborative study that confirmed that the individuals closely align genetically with populations in West and West Central Africa.

    Michele W. Berger

    Penn scientist Nader Engheta wins the Benjamin Franklin Medal
    Nader Engheta

    Nader Engheta, the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering.

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    Penn scientist Nader Engheta wins the Benjamin Franklin Medal

    The H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering is awarded for his advances in engineering and physics.