collections
Black Lives
Black alums share their thoughts and stories about racial injustice.
‘Black Male: Guilty Until Proven Innocent’
It pains me that these words I wrote in 1992 still ring true today.
July 7, 2020
The Weight of It All
Is a bulletproof superhero the only Black man who can survive a police encounter?
Adrian Miller is a lawyer by training, a church council director by profession and a soul food scholar by avocation. And what people most want to talk to him about is a perfectly cooked sparerib.
November 18, 2020
‘For some of us, the journey to motherhood comes at a higher cost.’
July 9, 2020
How can what’s happening in America not weigh on our collective conscience?
Cassandra Knight, ’91, JD ’94, and her mother find themselves face-to-face with a former grand dragon of the KKK.
Inside the museum that shimmers with light on the National Mall—“a rich picture of African American life.”
