Hashtags began as a simple way to categorize social media posts, but soon became a way for people across the world to connect around shared issues and identities, and from there, slowly grew into a potent new form of activism. Brooke Foucault Welles and Moya Bailey join us on this episode to discuss their research surrounding Hashtag Activism.
Understanding that the COVID-19 virus has made completing the spring 2020 semester more complicated, many publishers of scholarly resources have attempted to ease the stress of this difficult situation by temporarily making their resources freely available. Click here to see a regularly updated list of these new databases, journals, and other resources.
In the United States between 1930 and 1970 there were thousands of racially motivated homicides, a brutal continuation of the gruesome murders that African Americans had endured for decades before, even as the Civil Rights movement began to stir. Many of these homicide cases are cold cases, left unsolved and, too often, forgotten. We're joined by Margaret Burnham, University Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern University and Founder and Director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project. She was also the First African American female judge in Massachusetts.
