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MLK Interfaith Commemoration highlights allyship of Black and Jewish communities
Keynote at MLK interfaith event.

Rev. William Gipson moderates a keynote discussion with Rabbi David Wolpe and actor, writer, and director Jonah Platt, both Penn alumni.

(Image: Damien Townsville)

MLK Interfaith Commemoration highlights allyship of Black and Jewish communities

The annual event this year featured a discussion between Rabbi David Wolpe and alum, actor, writer, and director Jonah Platt, along with student performances and the presentation of awards.
A day of service to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s tenets, character, and sacrifice
Students sit at tables to eat breakfast in a large room with wooden panelling, chandeliers, and university flags.

Students listen to Charles “Chaz” Howard speak at the 2023 Day of Service kickoff breakfast in the Hall of Flags.

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A day of service to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s tenets, character, and sacrifice

The 29th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and the Symposium on Social Change honors King’s legacy through educational and volunteer opportunities, along with events.

Kristina García

‘Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World’
Bronze sculpture of a large bust of a Black woman on Penn’s campus surrounded by autumn leaves

The 16-foot-tall bronze form of “Brick House” by artist Simone Leigh, who contributed to “Black Modernisms.”

(Image: Eric Sucar)

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    • ‘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.

    Kristina García

    A law meant to bust blight puts Black and Asian American property owners at risk, report warns
    Philadelphia Inquirer

    A law meant to bust blight puts Black and Asian American property owners at risk, report warns

    A new analysis by the Advocacy for Racial and Civil Justice Clinic at Penn Carey Law concludes that Philadelphia property conservatorships have come at the expense of vulnerable property owners, particularly Black and Asian American owners. Cara McClellan says that such petitions are filed in communities already at risk for gentrification.

    How the modern story of postwar anti-racism ignored the Global South
    Left: Book cover for “The Remnants or Race Science,”; right, Sebastián Gil-Riaño.

    Sebastián Gil-Riaño, an assistant professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, is the author of “The Remnants of Race Science: UNESCO and Economic Development in the Global South.”

    (Images: Courtesy of OMNIA; portrait by Adriann Moss)

    How the modern story of postwar anti-racism ignored the Global South

    In his new book, science historian Sebastián Gil-Riaño explores the lives of scientists who shaped one of the first international efforts to combat racism—and then got left out of the story.

    From Omnia

    Privacy and racial justice in law
    Outside of Penn Carey Law from sidewalk.

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    Privacy and racial justice in law

    In the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology, Melany Amarikwa explores the harms perpetuated by TikTok’s unique use of recommendation algorithms.

    From Penn Carey Law

    Dispossessions and race in the Americas
    A group of Native Americans standing in a row. The trees behind are bare; it looks to be cold.

    Belén Unzueta and her students looked at the enrollment cards the U.S. government gave Native Americans. It’s striking, because the cards list the blood quantum, she says.

    (Image: Harris & Ewing, photographer/Library of Congress)

    Dispossessions and race in the Americas

    Belén Unzueta is teaching a seminar on the historical account of race and ethnicity in the Americas as a Penn-Mellon Just Futures Initiative graduate fellow.

    Kristina García

    Weitzman’s Amber Wiley: Illuminating the Black freedom struggle in the built environment
    Amber Wiley.

    Amber Wiley, Matt and Erika Nord director of Weitzman’s Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites.

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    Weitzman’s Amber Wiley: Illuminating the Black freedom struggle in the built environment

    The inaugural Matt and Erika Nord Director of Weitzman’s Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites discusses her new role.

    From the Weitzman School of Design

    A new generation reinterprets Paul Robeson, singer, actor, advocate, and all-American icon
    robeson docent gives a tour to a student, holding a music record

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    A new generation reinterprets Paul Robeson, singer, actor, advocate, and all-American icon

    In collaboration with The Netter Center for Community Partnerships, ninth-grade students from Paul Robeson High School trained to become youth docents at the Paul Robeson House and Museum through a program funded by The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation.

    Kristina García