Professor Rose Brewer and Associate Professor Keith Mayes were interviewed for a KSTP project called Conversations about Racism and the Road to Equality.
My name is Yuichiro Onishi. I teach in the Department of African American & African Studies (AA&AS) and the Program in Asian American Studies. I just stepped in as chair of AA&AS.
In the wake of George Floyd's murder, African American & African Studies core and affiliate faculty offer perspectives on the policing crisis and the imperative of racial justice to articulate knowledge for our time.
Peoria, Ill., was a place where marketers and politicians honed their messages. The pandemic and protests have made clear the sharply different realities of its Black and white residents. Associate Professor Terrion Williams is quoted in this New York Times article.
Minnesota is home to some of the greatest racial disparities in the country, according to an NAACP report from 2019. Professor Keith Mayes talks to Kare11 about Minnesota's history of redlining.
Junior Robel Tedros used his time during distance learning to spend quality time with family and focus on physical and mental health. “What inspires me to keep moving forward is finding ways in which I can activate my own personal happiness.”
Professor Yuichiro Onishi of the Departments of African American & African Studies and Asian American Studies writes about the history and current relationships between Black people and Asian Americans and how relationships must be reworked to come together in Afro-Asian solidarity.
To commemorate Juneteenth, Morning Show host Jill Riley invited Dr. Keith Mayes, a professor in the department of African-American and African studies, to have a conversation about the history of the holiday, as well as the necessity for more extensive Black history to be present in the curriculum taught in K-12 classrooms.
This interview at LitHub on the Podcast Fiction/Non/Fiction features Associate Professor Terrion Williamson of African American & African Studies and Assistant Professor V. V. Ganeshananthan of English.
"Minnesota was known to be a white progressive state, but that doesn't mean that racism was absent from the state," says Keith Mayes, a professor in the department of African American and African Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Nearly ten years before the killing of George Floyd, officers from the Minneapolis Police Department were responsible for suffocating another Black man to death. This is his story.
One ran from a barreling semi-truck; another got tear-gassed by police. Professor of African American & African Studies Terrion Williamson is quoted in this article by The Lilly.
Though blacks make up only one in five residents in Minneapolis, they account for more than 60 percent of use of force cases. Professor Keith Mayes of the Department of African American & African Studies is interviewed for this KARE11 story.
'Clearly what we did wasn't enough,' says Janee Harteau of efforts to improve relations. Professor Keith Mayes of the Department of African American & African Studies is quoted in this article by CBC.
Ian Hanomansing talks to Keith Mayes, a professor at the department of African American and African studies at the University of Minnesota, about race relations in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area and what it could take to stop the violent protests.
