Keep up with events at and beyond the CSSJ! No Images? Click here CSSJ Newsletter Upcoming Events March 14, 2019, 12:00PM In the News "Ask Hafzat Akanni about the moment she decided to devote her life to social justice and she’ll point you to a trip she took as a high school senior. She was enrolled at Hope High School in Providence, R.I., which had partnered with Brown University’s Civil Rights Movement Initiative, a program that teaches high school students about the Civil Rights Movement. It culminated with a weeklong tour of 11 southern cities that played a significant role in the nation’s battle for civil rights." Full coverage: BU Today BEYOND SCREENS: In conversation with "Dr. Khiara Bridges and Dr. Virginia Eubanks discuss how federal, state, and local governments in the US collect and use data to make policy decisions, and how current iterations of data collection and automated decision-making have increased the surveillance of people who receive public services." Full coverage: The College Hill Independent Exodus: Blacks fled the South in droves more than “In the decade after the Civil War, former slaves in the South searched for a way out. They were sickened and exhausted by the racist terrorism that had followed emancipation. Though freed from slavery, African Americans were routinely cheated, attacked and killed by whites who tolerated them barely, if at all.” “Sylviane Diouf, visiting professor at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, said studying migration compensates for a bias found in conventional depictions of black history. 'The slave trade, slavery, emancipation, Jim Crow and civil rights – it’s mostly what has been done to (African-Americans),' Diouf said. 'But when you look at history through migration, you see how people were agents of their own future.'” Full coverage: USA Today Beyond the Center Over the last six years CSSJ’s work has helped to shape important conversations on and off campus around the history and memories of racial slavery both in America and globally. This pioneering work would not be possible without the sustained commitment of our supporters. Learn more about one of the CSSJ's supporters. |