UW Tacoma professor Michael Honey screened his documentary film, “Love and Solidarity: Rev. James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights” in the Ethnic Cultural Center (ECC). The focus of the film is the life of Rev. James Lawson and how his work in the nonviolence movement relates…
Cambridge University Press filmed some footage of APSA book winners at the big annual political science conference—so if you want to hear me reflect on my book (why I decided to write on this topic/turning point in the battle against racial violence/what is the role of citizen agency in the…
The American Political Science Association (APSA) gives out four book awards each year and this year the Ralph J. Bunche Award for best scholarly work that explores the phenomenon of ethnic or cultural pluralism was given to Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State at the annual…
Pleased to contribute some of my in-progress research to a forum which examines the role of philanthropy in lessening inequality. Check the article here. A preview: “In 2015, protection of black bodies from state sanctioned violence remains an unmet challenge for civil rights groups committed to racial equality. As many…
A recent article I co-wrote with my UW colleague Christopher Parker is now posted online! It uses Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter from Birmingham Jail as a way to examine the roll of moderate whites in the struggle for racial justice.
My book was honored as the co-winner for the 2015 W.E.B. Du Bois book by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists at the annual meeting. I screamed when I found out the news and after receiving the award, I went back to my hotel room to reflect on this…
On April 16, 2015, I was at the Race Center at the University of Chicago on a panel titled: ‘Ferguson and Civil Liberties: A Response to the Department of Justice Investigation into the Ferguson, MO Police Department and Chicago Police Torture Cases’ I presented some initial thoughts on a project…
Facebook Headquarters is something like a grown up Disneyland…a magical social media world w/ free food, coffee and its own enclosed world of everything awesome. I def ‘liked’ it! I was invited to give my perspective on the current state of race and violence on March 12, 2015 by “Black@Facebook” – Facebook’s…
I was invited to give the keynote for Women’s History Month at St Louis Community College on March 2, 2015. This is what I wrote afterwards: I’ve been told that you’ve “made it” in life when you get bookmarks made…if that’s the case then errrrybody needs to copy off some…
