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George Floyd was murdered a year ago. Many Black Floridians still can’t watch. Violent images of police brutality have psychological impacts mental health counselors say resemble post-traumatic stress disorder.     Charlie Jenkins, seen here during a recent visit to Tampa's Lykes Gaslight Park, asks why it takes such dehumanizing images to move the needle on racial justice. [ MENGSHIN LIN | Times ] When the video first surfaced, 67-year-old Samuel Wright couldn’t watch. Ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was kneeling on the neck of a Black man begging for his life....

Freedom of the press is a quintessential part of our democracy. In 1892, journalist and civil rights leader Ida B. Wells investigated and reported on lynchings in the South, making data on racial discrimination and lynching accessible to the public for the first time in the U.S., which led to the publishing of her 1895...

Harvard University fellow Suraj Yengde discussed the importance of solidarity between Dalit and Black communities at a Thursday discussion. The event was hosted by the Comparative Literary Studies Program and South Asia Research Forum. Weinberg Profs. Laura Brueck and Ivy Wilson moderated the talk.  Brueck began the conversation by discussing Yengde’s 2019 book “Caste Matters.” With the book, Yengde said he hoped to revive a rich tradition of global literature, dating back to the 1820s, chronicling systems that oppressed Black and Dalit people.  “I’ve been trying my best to create...

Opinion: The lessons of Beulah Mae Donald, the mother who took down the Klan CNN 5 days ago Opinion by Cornell William Brooks © Mary Hattler/Mobile Press-Register/AP Beulah Mae Donald of Mobile, Ala., whose son Michael was killed by two Ku Klux Klansmen in 1981, has taken ownership of the United Klans of America headquarters building in Tuscaloosa in a settlement of a lawsuit against the KKK, May 20, 1987. (AP Photo/Mobile Press-Register/Mary Hattler) America is transfixed and yet traumatized by the Derek Chauvin trial in the killing of George Floyd. As a nation, we've be...

Not JUST Data Feb. 22, 2021 9 a.m. Illustration by Matilda Luk, Office of Communications; image of Ida B. Wells circa 1895 by Cihak and Zima, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; image of Justice from iStock When Ruha Benjamin was 14, she moved from South Carolina to the South Pacific with her parents, educators tasked with curriculum development and teacher training in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands. To keep the family entertained, her father brought boxes of VHS tapes filled with “Star Trek” episodes. Ruha Benjamin “It was my only entertainment for nine mo...