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Journalism students learned how to access an historic figure’s papers and memorabilia at an archive, and used them to form narrative stories.

A total of 8 000 crates have been donated to UCT by Pick n Pay to assist in the salvaging and storing of academic material damaged at the African Studies Library.

Critical race theory is the latest attempt by the most privileged people in our society to displace the blame for their mismanagement of the country onto the people below them. In an effort disrupt what it calls "whiteness and white supremacy in libraries", the University of Wisconsins Gender and Womens Studies Library has published a reading list for students that includes sections on "Whiteness"; "Microaggressions"; and "Decolonizing Research and Knowledge." The school says it regularly creat...

Chrissy Clark • January 19, 2021 4:50 pm SHARE The University of Wisconsins library system published a reading list for students on "disrupting whiteness and white supremacy in libraries." Among the suggested readings are Ibram X. Kendis bestseller How to Be an Antiracist and Layla F. Saads Me and White Supremacy, as well as several books on "decolonizing research and knowledge." The list, created by the schools "Gender and Womens Studies Library," also includes a small subsection arguing...