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Learn More About: Racial Justice as Human Rights: Support for Reform in American Policing

Political Science Now

Project Title: Racial Justice as Human Rights: Support for Reform in American Policing Genevieve Bates, University of Wisconsin-Madison Genevieve Bates is an Anna Julia Cooper Research Associate and an incoming Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Ph.D.

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Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy Appointed as the Next Executive Director of the American Political Science Association

Political Science Now

million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4 million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026).

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A Turning Point For People and Planet

Digital Promise

As we enter 2021, and what our partners at the UN SDG Action Campaign are calling a “turning point for people and our planet,” we are excited to announce the launch of a new round of MY World 360°. Immersive Stories Inspiring People Everywhere to Take Action.

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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

Anthropology News

Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent.

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TEACHER VOICE: Our schools are not equipped to teach transgender students

The Hechinger Report

They are doing so with a slew of anti-trans bills; so many, in fact, that the Human Rights Campaign and many others are calling 2021 the worst year for trans rights in recent history.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023. events in 2021 and 2022. For example, in 2021 the Foster Woods Folk School offered a virtual teach-in with a series of five- to seven-minute “illegal lessons” from or about a historical site or event near them. Every action counts.

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More students question college, putting counselors in a fresh quandary

The Hechinger Report

Paul Public Schools, speaks with Yusanat Tway (right), a first-generation University of Minnesota student interested in attending law school but worried that work in human rights advocacy will not pay enough to justify the cost. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. It will cost $200K” to get a law degree, she said.