What's Motivating Protests in the Midst of a Pandemic
Thursday, Jun 4, 2020
Faculty Highlight
AAS Faculty Reading List
Tuesday, Jun 2, 2020
Protests have erupted across the nation in the wake of recent police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and the many other victims of police brutality.Defund Police: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Says Budgets Wrongly Prioritize Cops Over Schools, Hospitals
Tuesday, Jun 2, 2020
As police departments face increasing criticism for using excessive force on protesters, we get response from Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, renowned scholar Professor Cornel West and attorney Bakari Sellers.George Floyd's Murder Shows Once More That We Cannot Wait For White America to End Racism
Friday, May 29, 2020
[Opinion] Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People.
Friday, May 29, 2020
Ready or not, life is returning to some sort of normal in the United States, and normal inevitably includes police officers killing an unarmed black man in their custody, followed by street protests. The country is working its way back into its familiar groove.
Eddie Glaude on death of George Floyd: 'Police don't value the lives of black folk'
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Eddie Glaude, Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University and MSNBC contributor, on the death of George Floyd: “Police don’t value the lives of black folk. When you look at the face of that officer, he doesn’t seem to assume that he has his knee on the neck of a human being … He doesn’t hear him call out for his mother. He doesn’t hear him crying. This is the America we live in.”
Imani Perry on the Notion of Collective Grief
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Today on episode 44 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber speaks with professor and author Imani Perry. They discuss what it means for artists and thinkers to speak out against injustice in this moment, and how humility can function as both a virtue and a form of submission.Four Faculty Members Honored for Excellence in Mentoring Graduate Students
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Four Princeton University faculty members have been named recipients of the Graduate Mentoring Awards by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and will be honored during the Graduate School’s virtual Hooding ceremony at 4 p.m., Friday, May 29.Staying Alive, But Also Staying Alive: Reflections on how the "Pandemic is a Portal"
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Join us for a presentation by Dr. Ruha Benjamin on social inequity, the history of scientific and medical racism, and COVID-19, followed by responses by Dr. Nicole Fleetwood and Dr. Monica McLemore, offering perspectives from the imprisonment system and practices of clinical care and public health.
From the Archive: Looking for Lorraine With Imani Perry and Eddie Glaude Jr.
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Join us in rewatching this 2018 conversation with Imani Perry and Eddie Glaude, Jr, discussing Perry's research on Lorraine Hansberry and her book Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry.
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