What the policing response to the KKK in the 1960s can teach about dismantling white supremacist groups today
Weidenbaum Center Grant Recipient David Cunningham authors article in The Conversation
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Video of Americanist Dinner Forum: Policing Blacknesss: Law, Race, and Criminal Justice Reform, March 3, 2021
Announcing the Spring Celebration of Undergraduate Research
The Office of Undergraduate Research is to host a month-long Spring Celebration of Undergraduate Research in April following the success of virtual Undergraduate Research Week this past fall.
Wingfield receives NSF grant to study millennials and corporate employment practices
Adia Harvey Wingfield, the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor and associate dean for faculty development in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a two-year, $180,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the project “Millennials and Corporate Employment Practices.”
Nicklaus: Biden spending plan is insurance against economic disaster
President Joe Biden speaks about the coronavirus, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris, in the White House Thursday.
Work From Home Has the Power to Advance Equality—or Set It Back
Employers that ignore potential pitfalls could inadvertently intensify office biases.
WashU Expert: A historic opportunity to combat systemic racism
‘Lots of our political disputes focus on how to slice the pie, but enlarging the pie is half the problem’
Seed money for the grassroots: The Divided City initiative’s community-led projects
Two critical conditions of the year 2020 — the major funding cuts to local nonprofits due to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and the major groundswell of support for social justice activism following the killing of George Floyd — provided the impetus for an innovative community outreach effort by the Divided City initiative over the summer.
‘It decimated our staff’: Covid ravages Black and brown health workers in US
Weidenbaum Center Grant Recipient Adia Wingfield quoted in The Guardian
These Tech Companies Are Paying Workers the Same Rates Across the U.S. A handful of startups and larger firms are experimenting with nationally competitive, nonlocalized pay. Is the extra cost worth the added employee goodwill?
Weidenbaum Center Research Fellow Jake Rosenfeld quoted in The Wall Street Journal
Black Anthology unveils its Digital Museum
Black Anthology, Washington University’s performance organization dedicated to telling Black stories, will unveil its Digital Museum Friday, Dec. 18.
On legacies of violence, genocide, and implicated subjects: Arts and museums as influence and response
Two recent events at Washington University spotlighted the role of public museums and memorials in initiating and giving context to conversations about remembrance, reconciliation and prevention of violence. PhD candidate Deniz Gundogan Ibrisim reports on the broad themes of the events, including the experience of museum-going and what it means to be an “implicated” subject.