Baltimore riots: the fire this time and the fire last time and the time between
A panel of scholars comments on the origins and the implications of the violence in Baltimore.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
There are more Baltimores: America’s legacy of hollowed-out cities
America is a country with pockets of poverty with neighborhoods filled with unskilled workers with limited opportunities.
Let’s talk race: a teacher tells students not to be ‘color-blind’
Do academics need to change the way they teach race? What is the impact of students having been socialized to believe that “race doesn’t matter”?
The slow poisoning of Freddie Gray and the hidden violence against black communities
Freddie Gray had high levels of lead as a child, one of the environmental injustices suffered by poor and minority groups.
With harsher disciplinary measures, school systems fail black kids
Black students get suspended or expelled at a rate three times greater than white students. The cost: they fall behind in school, and the cycle of poverty and failure is perpetuated.
The media and Baltimore: covering the dramatic versus the representative
The news media are a major presence in the Baltimore riots. Are they providing an accurate picture of what’s going on?
The dreams deferred by Baltimore’s mortgage crises set the stage for unrest
Predatory lending and the subprime mortgage crises as well as a history of economic injustice fueled the Baltimore protests.
DOJ report on Baltimore echoes centuries-old limits on African-American freedom in the Charm City
The Baltimore Police Department is found to have violated the civil rights of poor blacks. A historian explains why those findings are eerily similar to how the city treated blacks in the 1800s.
Racial and caste oppression have many similarities
Racial inequality in America has its parallel in caste inequality in India. What can the world’s two largest democracies learn from each other?
Is academic freedom a license to provoke without consequences?
Recent cases of tweets by a Boston University professor about racism and others have raised questions about what might be the limits to academic freedom.
