Masks Up, Don’t Shoot
Kashae Garland and Black students at Villanova University sparked a social movement to redefine the campus and its culture.
Tag: college
A Black Class: Re-Learning Abolition in Higher Education Organizing
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel, we just need to help set it in motion and watch it crash into the structures that for far too long have limited our vision of community to brutality and fear.
Tenure and Promotion as White Supremacy in the University: The Illness Explained and Possible Treatment
We have a way to go before we reach a fair and just tenure and promotion process for faculty of color at institutions. Change is possible if administrations commit to an overhaul of the systems and demand the impossible.
“Still I Rise”: From the Basement to Beyond; How Marginalized Members of the College Campus Community Mark Space
Marginalized student-activists and diversity workers continue to rise up and mark space in the face of both institutional barriers and the incendiary socio-political discourse of our time.
Gender Transition in the Trump Era
I was the first openly transgender student at my high school and successfully secured the rights for transgender students to use the bathroom of their gender identity, room with students of the same gender identity for overnight field trips, and to change their name in the school’s attendance system to reflect their preferred name and gender marker.
Call for Contributors for September 2018 Issue, “The Education of a Nation”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our September 2018 issue, “The Education of a Nation.”
The Road to Charlottesville: The Role of Popular Culture in Priming Young White Men for the White Right
Even in the face of life-threatening natural disasters and military action potentially on the horizon, ‘45’ makes clear through his weekly escapes to his members-only, signature golf clubs that revitalizing the bonds of white fraternity is an essential part of his project of ‘Making America Great Again.’
Racism Is Making Us Sick
Since 2003, Active Minds has empowered students facing mental health struggles to share their stories to let others know they’re not alone and to spread that message: help and hope are available.
