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A conversation with LAW’s Jasmine Gonzales Rose
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Jasmine Gonzales Rose is a Boston University School of Law professor of law and associate director for policy at BU’s Center for Antiracist Research. Her expertise: the intersections of race and language with both juries and evidence.
She is a leading voice on issues of evidence raised by racialized police violence. All of this is why
BU Today reached out to Gonzales Rose Tuesday afternoon with questions in reaction to the guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin, the white former Minneapolis police officer who stood accused of murdering George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes.
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Professor Andrea Freeman
A symposium will bring together some of the nation’s foremost academics in the areas of critical race theory, family law, health and reproductive rights, food law and policy, and feminist theory, to discuss a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law professor’s book highlighting breastfeeding, race and injustice.
Professor Andrea Freeman’s
Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race and Injustice has gained wide acclaim and she has been a sought-after speaker at seminars and forums nationally and internationally.
The symposium on Friday, March 12, 12–2 p.m. via Zoom will be hosted by California Western School of Law President and Dean Sean Scott. Dean Scott will introduce Freeman who will give a keynote address followed by comments from an outstanding panel. Participants can register online.
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Shortly after their November election victory, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris signaled that there were four urgent, out-of-the-gate priorities their administration would address. Their pledges on each are expansive and ambitious. But achievable? Here is what they have said about each:
COVID-19: Free testing for Americans, ramped-up personal protective equipment (PPE) production while ensuring future American manufacturing of PPE, and “equitable” vaccination.
The economy: Aid to states, localities, and businesses; investing in education and healthcare; and making good on an infrastructure upgrade.
Racial equity: Ensuring access for people of color to jobs, homeownership, higher education, retirement savings, and other necessities.
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Azer Bestavros, recently named BU’s first associate provost for computing and data sciences, sat in a Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground conference room overlooking the Charles River last February and listened as antiracism scholar Ibram X. Kendi laid out his bold vision: bringing antiracist investigators together with data scientists to tackle racial inequities, he would establish Boston University as the nation’s leading academic institution for data-driven antiracist research. Kendi, who was visiting from American University, had been in talks with BU about joining the faculty but this was his first in-person meeting with Bestavros.
Bestavros, who had been charged with embedding computing and data science across the University in every discipline, from the humanities to engineering to medicine, was impressed. “I was struck by the scale of what he was envisioning and by his conviction that data is essential not only in exposing racial inequities