In The News: Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies
If there ever was a year to celebrate Juneteenth, 2020 鈥 a year in which marchers worldwide have taken to the streets to protest racial inequality and police violence against African Americans 鈥 would be it.
As much as we love our dads, Father鈥檚 Day has always been an afterthought.
For more than a century, a Confederate monument has towered over the heart of the University of Mississippi, a stark reminder of divisions that have endured long past the Civil War. On Thursday, state officials finally relented: The monument can go.
Tyler Parry, 性视界传媒 assistant rrofessor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, discusses the holiday Juneteenth and the significance of June 19 as it relates to the ongoing protests against police brutality and racial inequality.
Confederate symbols, including 性视界传媒鈥檚 mascot, 鈥淗ey Reb!鈥 have been and are being removed across the country because of protests and calls to end systemic racism.
You have probably heard that #HeyReb was removed last night from the 性视界传媒 campus. Today, reporter Jeremy Chen KTNV is taking a deeper look into what prompted that removal and what is happening around the country. Here is an interview with 性视界传媒 professor Jovan Johnson.
In the wake of nationwide protests following the suffocation of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, the idea of defunding police departments has gained momentum in the national conversation about law enforcement and race. But the term 鈥渄efund鈥 has led to confusion and pushback from those who worry it means eliminating police entirely.
"What Black Lives Matter has initiated is a civil rights movement," said Tyler D. Parry Assistant professor of African American History at 性视界传媒.
A police officer. A fire chief. Two popular radio personalities.
The curfews that rolled out across the country this week in reaction to police brutality protests mark a tragic milestone: Not since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. have so many cities ordered simultaneous curfews.
Another protest is planned tonight.
I can鈥檛 help but weep when I hear the outcry from George Floyd calling for his 鈥渕ama鈥 as he took his last breaths while a police officer held him down at the neck with his knees and other officers kneeling on the rest of his body.