Sherri Burr is the Dickason Chair and Regents Professor Emerita at the University of New Mexico. She joined the UNM law faculty in 1988, after having received her A.B. (Politics) from Mount Holyoke College, her M.P.A (International Relations) from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and her J.D. from Yale Law School.
This Black History Month why not take a moment to celebrate Black Firsts and Black Achievement? Here is a list of books currently available at...
Kelsey Klotz is a lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received her PhD in Musicology with a certificate in American Studies from Washington University in St. Louis in 2016. Her research focuses on the intersection of race and sound in 1950s and 1960s American musical culture, with a particular focus on jazz.
In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this year, here is a list of resources to learn more about the history of the federal holiday and the...
Caitlin Rosenthal is Associate Professor of History at the University of California Berkeley, where her research and teaching explore the development of management practices, especially those based on data analysis.
Today, the name "Karen" represents a faction of the population, made up of white women specifically, that is threatened by the prospect of losing...
Professor Hoag is an anti-death penalty advocate who recently published, Valuing Black Lives: A Case for Ending the Death Penalty and argued before the Ohio Supreme Court advocating for Glen Bates.
John Lewis, a civil rights hero, dies at 80 | 1940-2020 Representative John Lewis, a son of sharecroppers and an apostle of nonviolence who was...
Here is a list of podcasts and radio programs that deal with the history of American policing, prisons, and the criminal justice system. BEHIND THE...
Here is a brief list of free documentaries, lectures, and tv programs about various aspects of racism, policing black communities, and the history...
The history of policing in the United States has deep and complicated roots that reach all the way back to 1704, when the colony of Carolina...
Dear community members, Heights Libraries grieves with you over the brutal, senseless deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many other...