Brave Space: Shardé Davis and Mason Holland
In the summer of 2020, UConn students made a pointed observation: the University had no single course devoted to the epidemic of anti-Black racism in the U.S.
Shardé Davis, assistant professor of communication, is a co-creator of the hashtag #BlackInTheIvory and one of the faculty coordinators of UConn s course on anti-Black racism. Copy Link
In a virtual town hall hosted by UConn’s African American Cultural Center amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests in July 2020, student Guymara Manigat ’21 (CAHNR) and alumna Wanjiku Gatheru ’20 (CAHNR), pointed out that the University responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with a 1-credit hour course, but had not done something similar to address the pandemic of anti-Black racism.