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“Breaking Barriers in Bourbon: Digital Media, Diversity, and the Black Bourbon Society” will take place 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 13, in the Singletary Center Recital Hall. The event is part of UK Libraries’ Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History’s “Women in Bourbon Oral History Project.”
With the “madness” of March underway, UKNow called on Jenny Rice, an associate professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences, to help us explain the seemingly incomprehensible psychology behind superstitions.
A tech company is being blasted for using White actors to portray Black roles.
The recent show of solidarity among Black and Asian American activists belies a fraught history. Can the communities now work side by side? Stephanie Sy explores the question with Tamara Nopper, a sociologist at New York University’s Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies, and Brenda Stevenson, a history and African American studies professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The final installment of the Dean’s Speaker’s Series on Anti-Racism and the Disciplines, a program of the Tulane University School of Liberal Arts, will take place on Thursday, April 29 with a lecture by Sarah J. Jackson, a communication studies expert at the University of Pennsylvania. Jackson, the Presidential Association Professor and co-director of the Media, Inequality & Change Center at Penn, will speak virtually on the topic of “Anti-Racism and Communication Studies” beginning at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public via Zoom. It will be moderated by Thorn Chen, an...