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IN THE NEWS
Companies Can Keep Their Hollow Statements on Racism. We Need Real Change
Anti-racism public statements by companies, organizations, and institutions are empty without efforts to enact real change, says Alexes Harris, UW professor of sociology and University of Washington Presidential Term Professor. She suggests cultural and structural changes that could have an impact. Source: Newsweek
A moment where protest leads to change? UW professor sees an historic arc
To put these weeks of protest against police brutality in some historical context, KUOW spoke with Michael McCann, UW professor of political science, who teaches about police violence and social movements. Source: KUOW
The white press has a history of endangering black lives going back a century
“The Black Lives Matter protests have been shaking up not just conversations about policing, but also almost every industry — including journalism,” writes Megan Ming Francis, UW associate professor of political science, who describes a long history of predominantly white U.S. newsrooms behaving clumsily at best in periods of racial upheaval. Source: Washington Post
As a Black mother-to-be, I’m already full of heartache
On Mother’s Day, 22 weeks pregnant with her first child, Maya Angela Smith and much of the nation first learned about the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. “I could not stop thinking about his mother’s pain,” writes Smith, UW associate professor of French. Source: Boston Globe
'Cheering yes!' This Seattle poet believes this time may be different
Colleen McElroy, UW professor emerita of English, shares her perspective as a Black woman in Seattle — and the first Black woman to become a tenured professor at the UW. Source: KUOW
