PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts addresses the audience at the 23rd annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice.
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‘Are Civil Rights Enough?’
During the 23rd annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice, PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts addressed the question “Are Civil Rights Enough?”
Associate professor of English Dag Woubshet leads students of the course “Black Queer Traditions” in Fisher-Bennett Hall.
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Through first-year seminar, a glimpse of Black queer traditions
Dagmawi Woubshet, an associate professor of English, led a new first-year seminar in the fall that explores Black queer media and its intersection with history and politics.
The 16-foot-tall bronze form of “Brick House” by artist Simone Leigh, who contributed to “Black Modernisms.”
(Image: Eric Sucar)
‘Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World’
A new book, co-edited by art historian Huey Copeland, examines the conception of modernism and Black artistry and agency and how the transatlantic slave trade enabled the modern world.
PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts describes the horrors that the child welfare system inflicts by invading homes, targeting low-income families, and threatening to separate parents and children.
Penn’s ‘long tradition’ as a center for the study of African American history
New hires like Marcia Chatelain and Vaughn Booker in Africana Studies and William Sturkey in the History Department are bolstering Penn’s position as one of the best places for the field of African American history.
Race-based medicine is not the solution to health disparities
PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts says that race is a social category affected by inequality, not a biological category that naturally produces health disparities.
For Emmett Till’s family, national monument proclamation cements his inclusion in the American story
Brent Leggs of the Weitzman School of Design says that the designation of a national monument honoring Emmett Till represents a milestone in the effort to preserve and protect places tied to wounds in American history.
Black Harvard and Princeton students graduate at higher rates than classmates overall, equally at Yale
Brian Petersonof the School of Arts & Sciences says that Black students are aware they’re representing more than themselves at highly selective academic institutions.
Annenberg Classroom, part of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, has released a documentary “Juneteenth: Exploring Freedom’s Stories” that surveys the history of the holiday.
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Mary Frances Berry and Kermit Roosevelt on Juneteenth’s history
A new documentary produced by the Annenberg Public Policy Center explores the history of the holiday and illustrates how and why freedom and citizenship were intertwined. The film features Berry and Roosevelt, among others.
