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April 20, 2021 Today marks a pivotal moment in our nation’s ongoing reckoning with racism. George Floyd’s murder follows a centuries-long series of senseless killings of Black people in this country; and while today’s verdict cannot bring Mr. Floyd back, today his murderer was held responsible by our justice system. This verdict by no means ends the need for the hard work of moving towards a world where all people are treated with respect, and where Black people and others who face systemic oppression no longer must fear for their lives as they go about their days. Here at Cornell, we will continue to vigorously pursue racial equity and social justice on campus, and we will continue to ask, as we approach every decision we make, how it impacts those goals. ....
March 4, 2021 Charles Petersen, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in history in the College of Arts and Sciences, studies 20th-century American history to better understand the rise of social and economic inequality in recent decades. “How did we go from the relative economic equality of the 1950s, when the average CEO made 20 times as much as the average worker, to the extreme inequality of the present, where CEOs make more like 400 times the pay of the average worker?” Petersen said. “The big picture of my research is bringing the tools of a historian to bear on these questions that sociologists and economists have been asking for a while.” ....
February 9, 2021 Worldwide protests against police brutality, an armed attack on the Capitol, protests in Europe and the U.S. against COVID restrictions– 2020 and 2021 stand out as years when those on the left and the right turned to both peaceful and armed protests to change the directions governments were headed. Structural racism and racial inequality were at the heart of much of these protests. In its next webinar, the College of Arts and Sciences’ (A&S) yearlong webinar series, “Racism in America,” will examine how protest movements and civil disobedience have sought to both end and uphold white supremacy and racial discrimination. The Feb. 24, 7 p.m. event, in partnership with the Cornell Law School, is free and open to the public; registration is required. ....