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Pennridge School District has created hostile environment for Black and LGBTQ students, federal complaint says

Pennridge School District has created hostile environment for Black and LGBTQ students, federal complaint says

A federal complaint filed by Penn Carey Law’s Advocacy for Racial and Civil Justice Clinic asserts that the Pennridge School District has failed to protect children of color and LGBTQ students, with remarks from Cara McClellan.

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 Linnea García

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

A historian’s take on Juneteenth
VanJessica Gladney speaking at a podium.

Doctoral candidate VanJessica Gladney speaking at Penn Spectrum Weekend in 2019.

(Image: Eddy Marenco)

A historian’s take on Juneteenth

In a Q&A, fifth-year Ph.D. candidate VanJessica Gladney talks about what the day means and what broader conversation she hopes it will foster.

Michele W. Berger

Mary Frances Berry and Kermit Roosevelt on Juneteenth’s history
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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.

Kristen de Groot

Putting biomedical research advances within reach
A medical worker gives a person a Covid vaccine.

Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine Magazine

Putting biomedical research advances within reach

Treatments and vaccines are only useful in the hands of the people who need them, and Penn Medicine is working toward better access and equity for biomedical innovations.

Karen L. Brooks for Penn Medicine Magazine

‘Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race and Rights in the Age of Abolition’
Left side of image shows a book cover reading "Undoing Slavery" and the right side of the image shows the author, Kathleen Brown.

Kathleen Brown's new book sheds new light on the abolitionist movement.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Press/Kathleen Brown)

  • Q&A

    • ‘Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race and Rights in the Age of Abolition’

    Historian Kathleen M. Brown’s new book reexamines the antislavery struggle and is the focus of the first episode of a new podcast series from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.

    Kristen de Groot