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The Hometown Historian
The Hometown Historian
By Jill C. Shomer
 
Frank A. Guridy never saw himself becoming a professor. Born working-class in Inwood — “a stone’s throw from Baker Field” — and raised in the Bronx, he was in fact the first person in his family to go to college. After graduating from Syracuse in 1993, Guridy, an associate professor of history and African-American studies, completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2002. He taught at the University of Texas, Austin, for 12 years before starting at the College in 2016.
Rethinking Justice Internships for Columbia Undergraduates
Rethinking Justice Internship
Columbia University-Metropolitan Detention Center Education Collaboration

Prof. Frank Guridy leads tour & conference re: At Columbia, Revisiting the Revolutionary Students of 1968

The campus of Columbia University is dotted with monuments to illustrious alumni and high-minded ideals. But on a sunny afternoon earlier this week, about two dozen people gathered around the sundial in its central plaza to pay tribute to a momentous event that has gone uncommemorated in stone.

“Horam expecta veniet — await the hour, it shall come,” Frank Guridy, an associate professor of history at the university, proclaimed, reading a Latin inscription on the sundial. “I think it’s sort of poetic that things began here.”

How I Met the Real Martin Luther King Jr. By Obery Hendricks

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s image has been flattened into that of a non-threatening dreamer. But the truth is, he was a politically radical thinker who not only fought for racial justice but for restructuring the economic order in this country.

COLORLINES, by Obery M. Hendricks Jr
http://www.colorlines.com/articles/how-i-met-real-martin-luther-king-jr

IRAAS Congratulates faculty member, Dr. Kellie Jones on winning the MacArthur Genius Fellowship.

IRAAS Congratulates faculty member, Dr. Kellie Jones on winning the MacArthur Genius Fellowship.

 

Fall 2014 Conference: Call for Proposals
Fall 2014 Conference: Call for Proposals
"Are the Gods Afraid of Black Sexuality?: Religion and the Burdens of Black Sexual Politics"

Deadline: April 15, 2014
The Nation: Pot Reform’s Race Problem by Carl L. Hart
Pot Reform’s Race Problem
The fight against marijuana prohibition must put racial justice at the center.
 
by Carl L. Hart
Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton all acknowledge illicit marijuana use in their younger years. Of the three, who do you suppose was most at risk for arrest and all of the associated negative consequences, including truncating his political aspirations?
 
The Huffington Post: Holder's Proposal Is Insufficient by Carl L. Hart

Holder's Proposal Is Insufficient: Congress Needs to Decriminalize Drugs

By Carl L. Hart

The Huffington Post: Challenging Punishment by Samuel K. Roberts

Challenging Punishment: What the California Prisoners' Hunger Strike Tells Us About Mass Incarceration

By Samuel K. Roberts, PhD

IRAAS Professors Carla Shedd & Dorian Warren individually awarded Columbia Provost’s Junior Faculty Grant

IRAAS Professors Carla Shedd & Dorian Warren individually awarded Columbia Provost’s Junior Faculty Grant for contributions to the University’s diversity goals.

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