In this personal essay, Summer Wilkie explores the recent use of land acknowledgments and how they don’t go far enough.

In this personal essay, Summer Wilkie explores the recent use of land acknowledgments and how they don’t go far enough.
A queer, Black woman explores some of the challenges of relaxing in nature when it’s a predominately white space that often doesn’t feel welcoming or safe.
An Arkansas native wants to defend her home to classmates at her Ivy League school, but struggles based on racist incidents experienced as a child.
Get into the book that explores how emotion shaped Black identity in the 60s — by U of A Associate Professor Dr. Lisa Corrigan.
A University of Arkansas union wants to rename a dining hall since the namesake, a former governor, failed to stand up for Black residents after the 1919 Elaine Massacre
Dr. Rickey Booker discusses the slow progress towards racial justice in American history, drawing from the writings of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and Ibram Kendi. His essay engages with James Baldwin’s urgent question to the white community: HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR PROGRESS?”
Dr. Rickey Booker Jr. reflects on the recent murders of African-American men, and asks this urgent question: “Every time I embrace my wife and 3-year old daughter, I am flooded with the same question: Is this the last time they will embrace me. AM I NEXT?”