Tagged - racism
Administration
An end to the madness
Every day of its relentless campaign against pro-Palestinian student voices, the University signals it is far happier to take my tuition than my message Read More
2024 election
Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies hosts post-election reflection forum
On Tuesday, Nov. 12, Hoyt Hall buzzed with over 30 people as the Frederick Douglass Institute and the Department of Black Studies hosted the Town Hall: Post-Election Reflection, One Week After. Read More
Administration
Letter to the Editor: “UR Racist & Complicit: Sustaining racism at Rochester’s finest institution”
This University is complicit in the dissemination of misinformation intended to harm Palestinian and pro-Palestinian students. Read More
music
Racism in rap
For Black rappers, their art and career are one of the couple of means of escape from the harsh reality of systemic racism. Read More
bias incident report
SA solicits input on race-related trainings for faculty
SA released a survey seeking student input on potentially-mandatory race-related training curricula for faculty. Read More
beauty
Confronting colorism is more complicated than we think
Even now, I remember thinking if such an extreme degree of caution was worth it, if paleness truly was enough to sacrifice the plain, irreplaceable pleasure of sunlight on bare skin. Read More
accountability
The catchphrase “I’m not racist”
Nowadays, it seems like anything you do can be, in some way, shape, or form, “racist.” Read More
Doorley
Rochester summer news round-up
No matter what that patented collegiate-student sense of self-importance may tell us, Rochester keeps bustling even when we go home for the summer. So here are some local news stories you may have missed while away. Gun violence uptick met with state of emergency declaration Read more: Democrat and Chronicle, “Mayor Evans, trying to […]
racism
It’s been a year; we need to stop AAPI hate
This atrocity was not the effective trigger to anti-racism and the end of Asian hate at UR that I had hoped it would be. Read More
COVID-19
Letter to the Editor: Medical racism
I believe in vaccines. I believe in the COVID-19 vaccine. Yet, I think people who present allergic reactions should be exempted. People like me. Read More
