In late January and early February, timed no doubt to coincide with the celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the start of Black History month, we began to hear internet-based, anticipatory “chatter” about yet another wave of racist, white supremacist posters on college campuses. These posters and fliers, which began appearing on campus…
Author: Angela Denise Dillard
Debating the Legacy of C. C. Little
Welcome to the Re-Launch of the LSA Blog! We’ll be debating the legacy of Clarence C. Little on campus this fall and whether the university ought to remove his name from the C.C. Little Building. A team of faculty colleagues, along with an undergraduate History Honors student who is writing his thesis on Little, worked…
Introducing LearnSpeakAct: A LSA Blog
This new blog is rooted in a particular time and place and emerged from a distinctive set of circumstances. In the fall 2016, the University of Michigan unveiled a five-year strategic plan to increase Diversity, Equity and Inclusion on campus. During the same semester, racist flyers were posted across campus that made erroneous and discriminatory claims about the nature…