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  1. A powerful collaboration memorial piece to George Floyd from the corner of Holton and North Avenue in Milwaukee.
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    Writing on the Wall: Assistant Professor Ann Graf Documents the Significance of Graffiti Art

    Assistant Professor Ann Graf sees the world a little differently, and she's on a mission to record it. After choosing to complete her thesis on graffiti art, Graf has expanded her research to cataloging street art in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

  2. Headshot of Nanette Veilleux
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    Computer Science Professor Nanette Veilleux Receives NSF Grant to Study Prosody

    Professor Nanette Veilleux has received a collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation. The ultimate goal of the project is to clarify the meaning in prosody — inflections in tone and lengthening syllables as we speak.

  3. Headshot of Felipe Agudelo
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    Ambient Digital Racism: an Interview with Assistant Professor Felipe Agudelo

    Assistant Professor Felipe Agudelo discusses his current project, “It’s Not How You Say It, It’s What You Say: Ambient Digital Racism and Racist Discourses on Twitter," which examines counter narrative tweets to Black Lives Matter hashtags.

  4. Headshot of LaDonna Christian
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    Meet Your Professor: LaDonna Christian, Director of the Dotson Bridge and Mentoring Program

    We caught up with School of Nursing Professor LaDonna Christian about what motivates her most: working with students of color and helping them navigate the nursing program. Also, don't miss her expert tips on reducing anxiety when it comes to tests.

  5. Chicago, Illinois. Ida B. Wells Housing Project. 1942
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    Archives and Memory of the Great Migration: An Interview with Professor Sumayya Ahmed

    Assistant Professor Sumayya Ahmed discusses her current project which looks at the archival traces of Black Southerner migration to Chicago through the lens of her maternal great-grandfather, who migrated from Alabama to Chicago in the early 1930s.

  6. African American men during a prison rebellion
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    Politics in Captivity: An Interview with Professor Lena Zuckerwise

    Professor Lena Zuckerwise discusses her upcoming book, "Politics in Captivity: Plantations, Prisons, and World Building," which explores Black political rebellion in the captive spheres of slavery and incarceration in the United States.

  7. Global War on Terrorism monument
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    The Global Racialization of Muslims: An Interview with Associate Professor Saher Selod

    Sociology Professor Saher Selod discusses the latest chapter of her forthcoming book "21st Century Racism: The Racialization of Muslims Globally," which uncovers the processes of the global racialization of Muslims.

  8. On the afternoon of June 7th, there are still masses of protestors in D.C. These photos were taken from six blocks north of Lafayette Square, looking down toward the White House. A Black Lives Matter banner has been added to the new fence blocking off Lafayette Square, and part of it is visible in this photo.
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    “Black Lives Matter: Disrupting the Duality” An Interview with Dr. Aaron Rosenthal

    Dr. Aaron Rosenthal and graduate student, Taylor Eubanks, discuss Rosenthal's book-length project "The State You See: How Government Visibility Creates Political Distrust and Racial Inequality," as well as his forthcoming article “Black Lives Matter: Disrupting the Duality.”

  9. Assistant Professor Eric Poulin's great-grandfather Lester "Buster" Brown, bartending at Luchessi's Cafe in the 1940s.
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    Discovering the History of the “Classic Neighborhood Corner Bar” with Assistant Professor Eric Poulin

    After working at a neighborhood bar for nearly 20 years, Assistant Professor Eric Poulin is combining his current professional work with local barroom culture. In his latest research project, Poulin gives voice to the history made in these integral spaces.

  10. Simmons University Main College Building's cupola with the Boston city skyline in the background
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    Failure to Provide COVID-19 Testing is “Inequitable and Unethical,” According to New Commentary in EClinicalMedicine

    Simmons University faculty member, Dr. Cherie Lynn Ramirez, is the senior author of a paper published in The Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine journal outlining the urgent need for universal, frequent rapid COVID-19 testing to promote greater equity.