Race & Ethnic Relations

Revisiting Louis Farrakhan's influence amid celebrities' anti-Semitic comments

July 19, 2020
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with LBJ School Professor Peniel Joseph about why some Black celebrities have recently praised Louis Farrakhan's philos

The revolutionary lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. revisited in 'The Sword and The Shield'

July 6, 2020
"Dr. Peniel E. Joseph’s The Sword and The Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. could not have been published at a more apropos time," writes Jamal Eric Watson in his review.

Webinar: Building the Beloved Community: Allyship During Racial Crisis

June 25, 2020
LBJ's Dr. Peniel E. Joseph, director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) and Barbara Jordan Chair of Ethics and Political Values, and panelists Lawton Cummings and Kelli Mason, partners at Notley, an Austin-based nonprofit social impact firm, discuss meaningful paths to allyship and fostering an inclusive and equitable society for all in a June 25, 2020 webinar.

Black Studies scholar Peniel Joseph on the significance of the BLM protests

July 2, 2020
LBJ's Peniel Joseph talks with Texas Monthly about what he sees — echoes of the past and hope for the future — in the Black Lives Matter demonstrations rocking the nation.

How Black Lives Matter transformed the Fourth of July

July 2, 2020
LBJ's Peniel Joseph writes, "Racial justice protests around the nation make this Fourth of July perhaps the most important in American history. Independence Day 2020 is imbued with new meaning about what it means to be an American, rooted in a collective effort to squarely confront the bitter and beautiful struggles that shape our profoundly historic present."

Black Studies scholar Peniel Joseph on the significance of the BLM protests

July 2, 2020
LBJ's Peniel Joseph talks with Texas Monthly about what he sees — echoes of the past and hope for the future — in the Black Lives Matter

How Black Lives Matter transformed the Fourth of July

July 2, 2020
LBJ's Peniel Joseph writes, "Racial justice protests around the nation make this Fourth of July perhaps the most important in American history.

Monuments, statues and a national reckoning on racial injustice

June 23, 2020
The debate over physical symbols of the Confederacy has evolved into a broader one about U.S. history. Judy Woodruff talks to Peniel Joseph, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Arielle Hudson, one of six students who petitioned the University of Mississippi to relocate a campus Confederate statue.
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