The Twin Cities have garnered national attention due to several incidents of police brutality where race and class were key factors. Keith Mayes, associate professor of…
The Department of African American and African Studies was birthed out of student activism and protests for inclusion, representation, and social justice at the University of…
Keith Mayes, associate professor of African American & African Studies, spoke to C-SPAN via Skype about race relations in Minnesota two years after the police shooting of…
The Race, Indigeneity, Gender & Sexuality Studies Initiative (RIGS) was established in 2015 to support innovative research, teaching, community-building, and engagement for…
Associate Professor Keith Mayes discusses the phenomenon of White people calling the police on Black people for doing everyday things like barbecuing, traveling, and even…
The reboot of "Roseanne" has been cancelled as a result of the comedian's recent tweet about Obama's former advisor Valerie Jarrett. Keith Mayes, an associate professor of…
In 1969, about seventy black students with the Afro-American Action Committee waged a twenty-four-hour protest at Morrill Hall, the U's administrative building. The…