Tagged - racism
2024 election
Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies hosts post-election reflection forum
On Tuesday, Nov. 12, Hoyt Hall buzzed with over 30 people as the Frederick Douglass Institute and the Department of Black Studies hosted the Town Hall: Post-Election Reflection, One Week After.
Films
Politics intertwined with art: Israeli filmmaker Barak Heymann explains his work
“For me, if you are against racism, then you are against racism, any [...] racism,” Heymann said. “That was when I decided that I must make this film.”
Administration
Letter to the Editor: “UR Racist & Complicit: Sustaining racism at Rochester’s finest institution”
This University is complicit in the dissemination of misinformation intended to harm Palestinian and pro-Palestinian students.
music
Racism in rap
For Black rappers, their art and career are one of the couple of means of escape from the harsh reality of systemic racism.
bias incident report
SA solicits input on race-related trainings for faculty
SA released a survey seeking student input on potentially-mandatory race-related training curricula for faculty.
beauty
Confronting colorism is more complicated than we think
Even now, I remember thinking if such an extreme degree of caution was worth it, if paleness truly was enough to sacrifice the plain, irreplaceable pleasure of sunlight on bare skin.
accountability
The catchphrase “I’m not racist”
Nowadays, it seems like anything you do can be, in some way, shape, or form, “racist.”
Doorley
Rochester summer news round-up
No matter what that patented collegiate-student sense of self-importance may tell us, Rochester keeps bustling even when we go home…
racism
It’s been a year; we need to stop AAPI hate
This atrocity was not the effective trigger to anti-racism and the end of Asian hate at UR that I had hoped it would be.
COVID-19
Letter to the Editor: Medical racism
I believe in vaccines. I believe in the COVID-19 vaccine. Yet, I think people who present allergic reactions should be exempted. People like me.