civil rights movement Archives

Staff picks: Our Black heroes

Steven Keehner, Sam Lauria, Cindy Mizaku & Fanni FranklBlack History Month 2021 Op-eds Opinions Special IssuesFebruary 20, 2021

#OPINION: The opinions editors at The Statesman describe Black figures who inspire them.

A conversation on race with Shimelis Gulema, an Africana studies professor

Gary GhayratFaculty NewsFebruary 29, 2020March 1, 2020

Race is very integral, very key to the American fabric. You cannot talk about exploitation, oppression and segregation in this country without injecting the notion of race because many of these things are race-based.

Clarence Jones lectures on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Maya BrownNewsMay 4, 2019May 4, 2019

Dr. Clarence Jones, a scholar writer in residence at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Institute at Stanford University and adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco, spoke as part of the Presidential Lecture Series on Wednesday, May 1.

Two weeks after Banned Book Week, “To Kill a Mockingbird” banned in Mississippi

Nick ZararisArtsOctober 22, 2017

On Oct. 12, the Biloxi County School District in Mississippi removed Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” from its eighth grade curriculum.