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Australians won t take too kindly to elites telling them what to do: Kenny25/05/2021|8min
A new anti-racism ad by the Human Rights Commission is another example of elites trying to tell us what to do , says Sky News host Chris Kenny.
Mr Kenny said the ad would be using sports stars and celebrities to tell Australians what to do . Australians know that they don t live in a racist country and they won t take too kindly to elites telling them it is, Mr Kenny said.
Mr Kenny also spoke with CIS Indigenous Research Director Jacinta Price who said the ad was far removed from the reality of what occurs on the ground in Australia.
May 20, 2021
Since students led a 23-day hunger strike in 1995 to institute the Asian American Studies Program, the demands of activists have continued to be linked to ethnic studies at Northwestern.
Starting in 2006, students and faculty advocated for the creation of the Latina and Latino Studies Program, which began around 2008, according to LLSP Director and Prof. Geraldo Cadava.
After the programs were established, students continued to push for the expansion of ethnic studies through events, discussions with faculty and administrators and numerous petitions. Student advocacy has been central to creating AASP and LLSP majors and minors, expanding the curriculum and increasing hiring in ethnic studies, according to AASP Director and Prof. Nitasha Sharma.
Northwestern University
Record four PhD candidates win dissertation fellowship
May 13, 2021
The Office of Fellowships is thrilled to announce a record-breaking number of Northwestern recipients among this year’s class of Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship winners! With funding from the award, Ashley Dennis, Hayana Kim, Andrea Rosengarten, and Azadeh Safaeian will finish their PhD studies next year.
Inspired by her commitment to educational equity and the dearth of Black history curriculum in the
predominantly Black and brown schools she attended, Ashley’s research in the Department of African American Studies considers how and why Black women educators promoted Black history and culture to children during the mid-twentieth century. Her dissertation examines teachers, librarians, and authors who challenged stereotypes in texts for children and supplemented or replaced them with antiracist writings of their own. Their writings in