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Instagram users can now virtually replace Confederate monuments with Black activist statues
EXCLUSIVE: Activists Alicia Garza and Chelsea Miller discuss The Pedestal Project s innovative AR technology to honor contemporary Black figures. Left to right: Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and founder of Black Futures Lab; Civil Rights icon Rep. John Lewis; and Chelsea Miller, founder of Freedom March NYC. (Photo: Getty Images, Instagram/TheChelseaMiller)
As Black History Month comes to a close the conversation this year, as in recent years, revolved around how to bring the discussion into the future, well past Feb. 28. Color Of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, found a way to do just that with the launch of an augmented reality (AR) experience on Instagram that lets you place statues of racial justice leaders atop empty pedestals where confederate statues once stood.
Leading Immigration Advocate Arulanantham Joins UCLA Law February 24, 2021
Ahilan Arulanantham, one of the nation’s most respected advocates for immigrants’ rights, is joining UCLA School of Law as co-faculty director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy and professor from practice.
Arulanantham is celebrated for his visionary efforts both inside and outside of the courtroom. This includes leadership in a great number of transformative lawsuits that have had a profound and positive impact on the lives of noncitizens in the United States – initiatives that have in turn inspired many lawyers to also confront and combat the immense challenges that immigrants presently face.
Enact Our Commitment to Equity
The second principle of our 2020 Contingency Plan is to continue to enact our commitment to equity. Over the past several years, the College has implemented several initiatives to improve faculty recruitment and retention rates. We have overhauled procedures to align with equitable search best practices and hired 9 BIPOC faculty (5 African American) over the past three years or 32% of all tenure-stream hires (9/28) and 50% (4/8) in AY 19-20. We have developed proactive retention policies, both College leadership fellows and mentoring fellows’ programs, and continue work on an equitable policies review at the College and Department/Center levels. Over the past two years, we have successfully retained all tenure-stream African American faculty in the College and hired two new Black faculty in the new Department of African American and African Studies, including a new inaugural chair, Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown, who was recently appointed as an MSU Foundatio
UCLA
February 5, 2021
UCLA School of Law will present its inaugural Black History Month lecture with Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, associate professor of history at Smith College. The lecture, held on Feb. 10 at 12:10 p.m., will discuss the topic “The N-Word: Race, Language and the University Classroom.” LaToya Baldwin Clark, UCLA Law assistant professor and Critical Race Studies core faculty member, will be the moderator.
Pryor is the author of the award-winning article “The Etymology of [the N-Word]: Resistance, Language and the Politics of Freedom in the Antebellum North.” Her next project is a historical and pedagogical study of the N-word, which is framed by her experience as a biracial woman in the United States.