Introduction by series curators, Dr. Roland L. Leak, associate professor of marketing at North Carolina A&T, and Rebekah Modrak, professor of art at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor In the wake of massive racial protests over the past year, some companies began the work of re-evaluating how their brand messaging…

Introduction by series curator Dr. Lata Murti, associate professor of sociology at University of Massachusetts Global “Educational institutions are the ONE thing that we all do for 13 years,” writes Dr. Trinity Davis in her contribution to this series. But our experiences of these institutions differ widely according to race…

Anti-CRT Movement, Rhetoric, Policy and Impact — Introduction by Series Curators Dr. Michelle Bellino, Associate Professor of Education at the University of Michigan and Dr. Manoucheka Celeste, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. Since former-President Trump’s September 2020 executive order to eliminate “divisive concepts in schools and federally-funded entities,” forty-two…

By Dr. Desiree D. Zerquera This piece is a part of our Spark Series Miseducating the Public: Anti-CRT Movement Rhetoric, Policy, and Impact In the past decade activists, scholars, administrators, students and community members have worked to advance a vision-in-progress for equity, building on the heels of generations of advocacy…

By Taifha Natalee Alexander and Nicole Powell This piece is a part of our Spark Series Miseducating the Public: Anti-CRT Movement Rhetoric, Policy, and Impact Pausing diversity trainings. Withdrawing educational resources. Inaccurately attributing “divisive concepts” to Critical Race Theory (CRT). Ignoring calls from community members to understand the value of…

By Dr. Katherine M. Bell This piece is a part of our Spark Series Miseducating the Public: Anti-CRT Movement Rhetoric, Policy, and Impact The far right’s attack on critical race theory confirms an abiding reality: liberal mainstream and news organizations in the United States are not equipped to grapple with…

Responding to Attacks on Antiracist Teaching — By Dr. Brendan H. O’Connor, Dr. Vanessa E. Anthony-Stevens, Rebekka Boysen-Taylor, Philip J. Stevens, Carmen Stevens, Rosalyn Gardner, Juan Miller, and Jackson Taylor This piece is a part of our Spark Series Miseducating the Public: Anti-CRT Movement Rhetoric, Policy, and Impact “Stop Critical Race Theory!” read the campaign signs for…

The Current Road Brings a Fresh Evil — By Len Niehoff This piece is a part of our Spark Series Miseducating the Public: Anti-CRT Movement Rhetoric, Policy, and Impact Efforts by state and local officials to ban ideas and books from public school classrooms are nothing new. Recent attempts to do so, however, have a uniquely pernicious characteristic…

Enacting Health Justice for a Flourishing Future — Introduction by series curators Andrés Cordero, Jr. (he/they), Dr. B. Ethan Coston (they/them), Deandra Escañuela (she/her/ella), and Natalie Malone (she/her) I won’t lie to you: it’s a scary time to be “out” lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, two-spirit, and otherwise not heterosexual, not cisgender (LGBTQIA2+) scholars and teachers…