racism

  1. June 16, 2020

    Faculty, staff offered free Anti-Racism Primer

    U-M faculty and staff on the Ann Arbor, Flint, Dearborn campuses and Michigan Medicine are being offered a free Anti-Racism Primer to help push through discomfort and fear.

  2. June 5, 2020

    Town hall panelists explore ways to fight structural racism

    U-M students, faculty and staff gathered for a virtual town hall during which panelists discussed how individuals and the university as a whole can combat structural racism.

  3. June 2, 2020

    University to host virtual town hall on racism

    Combating racism through daily activities, relationships and challenging conversations will be the focus of a virtual town hall meeting set for noon June 5.

  4. June 2, 2020

    President Schlissel issues COVID-19 update; decries ‘pestilence of racism’

    The coronavirus situation is gradually improving but the “persistent and appalling pestilence of racism” continues across the nation, President Mark Schlissel said in a pair of emails to the U-M community.

  5. February 26, 2019

    Black youths believe inequality creates racial academic achievement gaps

    African-American teens blame systemic racism for the academic achievement gap between blacks and whites, a belief that was shaped by their parents and other factors, a new U-M study found.

  6. January 21, 2019

    MLK Symposium speakers explore resistance, unraveling injustice

    Julia Putnam and Tim Wise discussed ways to resist oppressive systems, the misremembering of American history, and how education can help unravel injustice at the 2019 MLK Symposium keynote.