In The News: Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies
Twenty years ago come November, an exciting new theater company, named after the 19th century New Orleans gathering place for enslaved Africans and free people of color, hit Chicago.

Everyone loves Chasten Buttigieg, who was briefly in contention to become the nation鈥檚 first first gentleman. His Twitter feed, with more than 447,000 followers, helped him become Pete Buttigieg鈥檚 鈥渘ot-so-secret public-relations weapon,鈥 as he was described in a profile for this newspaper. Now, six months after the historic campaign of 鈥淢ayor Pete鈥 for the Democratic presidential nomination came to an end, Chasten鈥檚 memoir, 鈥淚 Have Something to Tell You,鈥 is being published.

Kendra Gage describes implicit bias as the stories we make up about people before we get to know them. It鈥檚 a practical and personal definition from an historian who studies what some consider an unlikely, even unpopular, topic for a white professor 鈥 the civil rights movement.

Tyler Perry, a 性视界传媒 assistant professor of African American studies, is weighing in on what鈥檚 happening in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

For Native American鈥檚 in Northern Nevada, a siren that blasts nightly in Minden is a living piece of historical trauma.
On Monday, former football great Herschel Walker rhapsodised about how Donald Trump had once accompanied his family to Disney World, while senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the lone black Republican in the Senate, lauded Mr Trump for creating an 鈥渋nclusive economy鈥.

Former football great Herschel Walker rhapsodized about how Donald Trump had once accompanied his family to Disney World. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the lone Black Republican in the Senate, took the stage to affirm the 鈥済oodness of America.鈥

What really makes Sondra Cosgrove happy about the choice of California Sen. Kamala Harris as the Democratic vice presidential nominee isn鈥檛 just that she鈥檚 a woman.

What sort of staying power does it take for a protest movement to be judged a success?
What sort of staying power does it take for a protest movement to be judged a success?

What sort of staying power does it take for a protest movement to be judged a success?

What sort of staying power does it take for a protest movement to be judged a success?