“Race for Cures: Rethinking the Racial Logics of ‘Trust’ in Biomedicine”
In the United States, African-Americans have historically been conscripted for experimental medical research while denied access to quality health care (Nelson 2011; Reverby 2009; Wailoo 2000;...
View ArticleOrganized ambivalence: when sickle cell disease and stem cell research converge
Why am I in such demand as a research subject when no one wants me as a patient? Unlike stem cells derived from embryos, ‘adult’ stem cells (e.g., haematopoietic stem cells) are tissue-specific and are...
View ArticleA Lab of Their Own: Genomic sovereignty as postcolonial science policy
Researchers in a growing number of countries outside of North America and Europe are successfully lobbying their governments to exercise a kind of protective ownership over the DNA of their...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter on campus too
The Black Lives Matter movement has arrived on college campuses and universities with the same ferocity it brought to the streets of American cities last year, after grand juries in Ferguson, Missouri...
View Article“Black Lives Matter on Campus, Too”
The Black Lives Matter movement has arrived on college campuses and universities with the same ferocity it brought to the streets of American cities last year, after grand juries in Ferguson, Missouri...
View ArticleThe Real State of the Union: Race
In the heady days after Barack Obama’s election as the nation’s first black president in 2008, some observers wondered whether it would spell an end to black politics. The idea was not that...
View ArticleWhat Happened in Missouri Puts the Nation on Notice
Imagine what could happen at Ohio State or UCLA or any other major university. The activists already have. What happened at the University of Missouri has sent shockwaves throughout this country: A...
View ArticleJustice Scalia Should Embarrass White People
‘Scalia’s words are the latest in what seems like an all-out assault on black people in this country’ I wish I didn’t have to respond to Justice Antonin Scalia’s recent remarks during oral arguments in...
View ArticleFLINT, MICHIGAN: Neglected by the Government, No Place Else to Go
News & Analysis How Flint, Ferguson and Baltimore are All Connected. Emily Badger for The Washington Post. I Grew Up in Flint. Here’s Why Governor Snyder Must Resign. Art Reyes III for Talk...
View ArticleThe Deepening Racial Chasm in America
Professor Glaude discusses themes in his book, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul. The post The Deepening Racial Chasm in America appeared first on Princeton African American...
View ArticleThe Base
In spite of Bernie Sanders’s primary win in Indiana and favored status in West Virginia, recent voting in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, and a handful of other states appears to confirm what has...
View ArticleHistorians on Donald Trump
Nell Irvin Painter is the emeritus Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University. She is the author of multiple books, including "The History of White People" (2011). She is a former...
View ArticleRace, Hillary Clinton and the Legacy of Obama’s Presidency
On Wednesday night, July 27th, 2016, President Obama addressed the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia and implored the nation to vote for Hillary Clinton. As Obama seeks to pass the torch...
View ArticleHillary Clinton, Racial Justice & the Democratic Party
To discuss Hillary Clinton’s historic nomination and how the Black Lives Matter movement is reflected in the Democratic platform, we are joined by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of "From...
View ArticleBlack Father in Letter to His Son
After the fatal police shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, Princeton professor Eddie Glaude sat down and wrote a letter to his son....
View ArticleOrganizing in the Era of ‘Black Lives Matter’
Justice Works is a conference that brings together a cross section of progressive politics and activism in New York State, at a time when united power, coordination and understanding is essential to...
View ArticleWhy is the Black Lives Matter Movement Happening Now?
Eight years ago, at the dawn of the Obama era, pundits seriously debated whether the election of the nation’s first black president would mark an end to the country’s long history of racial inequality....
View ArticleAfter Dallas, Black Lives Matter is More Important Than Ever
Over the weekend, after a tumultuous few days, thousands of protesters returned to American streets to demand an end to police killing black men, women and children. In some ways it was a surprising...
View ArticleJHU Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture
The Johns Hopkins for Institutional and Clinical Research sponsor the Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture Series with the goal of honoring the positive and global impact of the HeLa cells. The series...
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