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Jun 4 2020 | Leaderless, decentralized protest is a strength and a weakness, warns civil rights scholar Clayborne Carson
As spontaneous and loosely organized demonstrations against the death of George Floyd continue to erupt across the world, Stanford historian and civil rights scholar Clayborne Carson has a message to activists: There needs to be some kind of leadership stating objectives of the current movement.
Jun 4 2020 | George Floyd and 'the moral arc of the universe': insight from MLK's official historian
The killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers continues to incite mass demonstrations around the nation. As these turbulent protests surface in a multitude of cities throughout the U.S., our national political leadership is sadly adrift, glaringly oblivious to the core...
Q&A Ravi Veriah Jacques (Class of 2020) Separate Interview through the Department of History
Recipient of the 2020 Schwarzman Scholarship
Recipient of Stanford Deans’ Award for Academic Achievement
May 22 2020 | Four Stanford PhD students receive ACLS fellowships
BY ALEX KEKAUOHA
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has awarded 2020 fellowships to four Stanford students who are completing doctoral degrees in anthropology, art/art history, history and philosophy.
May 21 2020 | An occasion for poetry with Nikky Finney
Allyson Hobbs, associate professor of American history and director of African and African American Studies, hosts the Stanford Community Hour, during which she provides a space for reflection and meditation amid uncertain times, inviting experts from a variety of disciplines to share their work...
