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“We’ve been wanting to find a way to do a program like this,” Magill said. “In my own department, we have slowly been trying to diversify the curriculum and trying to get more voices of different authors from different racial backgrounds. The fact that this took fire now, of course, given everything that’s going on in the world, it’s even more essential.”
Larissa Smith, Longwood’s provost, said the program was a product of “student interest as well as faculty recognizing that there was a need.”
“Those of us who have been engaged in teaching those courses have for a long time felt we needed something in our curriculum that would allow students to explore more broadly race and ethnic studies,” said Smith, a scholar of African American and Virginia history.
Can George Floyd police reform bill pass the Senate? Glimmers of hope as hints of compromise emerge
Hopes of bipartisan negotiations came into greater focus Wednesday, as Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) began to shape the contours of what could bridge a yawning divide. Author: Mike Valerio Updated: 3:39 AM EDT April 22, 2021
WASHINGTON In a clarion call from a Minneapolis courthouse to the U.S. Capitol, George Floyd’s family urged activists to continue the urgent work of reforming police practices nationwide, including a full-court press in the Senate to pass landmark legislation bearing Mr. Floyd’s name.
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act cleared the House of Representatives on a party line vote last month. Yet the bill now faces its greatest challenge yet: finding 10 Republican supporters in the upper chamber, assuming all Senate Democrats vote in favor.
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The future is unwritten. It is also right around the corner, and, if, as science fiction author William Gibson noted, it is not evenly distributed, more and more young people around the world are reaching toward it to shape it, improve it, and make it more equitable. These “shapers of the future” work in many fields and endeavors, embracing every corner and intersection of health and medicine, science and technology, and business and entrepreneurship. They are people of ideas, framing the intellectual questions and concerns that will guide future thought. They are scholars, builders, designers, architects, artists, teachers, writers, musicians, and social and political leaders. While under the age of 40 (as of January 2021), the 200 shapers of the future that we will highlight in this series have already left their mark on the present, and we expect to see much more invention, innovation, creation, and interpretation from them in times to come.
Of course, COVID-19 looms large across this year’s annual Year in Review issue. From the shocking death toll, to the devastating impact on local businesses, to the cancellation of Pride, coronavirus upended all of our lives. Here are the Blade’s staff picks for the top 10 local news stories of 2020.