Institutions Built By Slave Labor, Rutgers Included
In the last week, student groups have pointed to the inequity and injustice that is a part of Rutgers University’s history. In the midst of a year-long celebration of its 250th anniversary, New Brunswick campus Chancellor Richard L. Edwards acknowledged that in those 250 years, Rutgers had committed previously unacknowledged injustices. In response to student activism committee […]
Are We Still Talking About Ferguson?: A Brief Valorization of “Twitter Activism”
It was the fall of 2014, and the nation was caught in a wave of protest. Just a few months prior, two unarmed black men, 18-year old Michael Brown from Ferguson, Missouri, and 43-year-old Eric Garner from Staten Island, New York had both died at the hands of police. These were two more in a […]