Universities Can Reject Hate Speech: A 1990 case from Brown University was the first time a modern university expelled a student for a violation of a 'hate speech code.' Don't miss today's #MadeByHistory TIME essay by MPG
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Next week we are excited to welcome Tanisha C. Ford 🧚🏾‍♀️ Prof. Tanisha Ford to campus for a book talk and signing on her latest, Our Secret Society. This event is part of our New Books / Black Studies series.

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🗓️November 6th, 4pm in the BassPas, Churchill House

Important points here. But shifting burden to the essay disadvantages students without access to strong high school advising/writing guidance and further empowers admissions officers to subjectively determine if/when race does or doesn't matter in an applicant's life.

The End of Affirmative Action | The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

My college essay didn't mention race, BECAUSE I HAD OTHER THINGS I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT. It is a ludicrous example of burden shifting to expect an 18-year-old kid to have to do the heavy lift of explaining how racism works and affected them personally, in this racist ass society.

The Long War on Black Studies | Robin D. G. Kelley | The New York Review of Books nybooks.com/online/2023/06…

Just published in Lit Hub: I reflect on my dear father's death, just before the publication of *My Hijacking.* lithub.com/why-didnt-i-wa…

I am “in my feelings” as they say, watching my colleagues and friends reading along as we read the whole of The Bluest Eye. We are reading for freedom, and against repression and fascism.

Amazing!

In a The New York Times essay, Brown's president says those who try to ban the advancement of knowledge will find themselves 'on the wrong side of history' and she argues for the critical importance of maintaining the free exchange of knowledge. fal.cn/3xBFo

This episode with MPG! Damn! Please listen to this one. It’s funny, devastating, loving, complicated as fk. Proud to be in conversation w Khalil Gibran Muhammad & Matt about his new memoir #Skinfolk and much more. bit.ly/3zi9mOK

Next up in New Book Talks: Skinfolk, A Memoir by MPG of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre. Join us and Tricia Rose on Thursday 4/6 at 4PM for a discussion of this poignant story of a mixed-race family in 1970s New Jersey. csrea.link/nbt-mpg