Following their collaboration for Black History Month, BLM Grassroots and the Scholars for Black Lives are renewing their partnership on a new political education project that will present critical insights and timely analyses from the S4BL network of community and campus scholars. The first installment in the series will focus on ongoing importance and political significance of Juneteenth.
Read MoreThe National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation has awarded Charles H.F. Davis III, Founder and Director of Scholars for Black Lives, a postdoctoral fellowship for his project entitled #PoliceFreeCampus: A Digital Ethnography of Black Campus-community Resistance, New Media Organizing, and Abolitionist Praxis for a Police-free Future. The NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is highly competitive and supports 25 early-career scholars working in critical areas of education research.
Read MoreIn a new partnership to advance political education during the month of February, Scholars for Black Lives and Black Lives Matter Grassroots have joined to create the #BlackHistoryMatters digital media campaign. The campaign brings together more than a dozen university and community scholars to discuss the political significance of the recognized and forgotten people, place, and events in Black diasporic history.
Read MoreThe Scholars for Black Lives is providing communications support and working in partnership with the Scholar Strike for Racial Justice. #ScholarStrike is an action inspired by the NBA, WNBA, Colin Kaepernick and other athletes, to underscore the urgent importance of addressing racism and injustice in the United States
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