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African American Student Services Discusses Future Steps For Blm Activism, Beatrice Nisoli Jul 2020

African American Student Services Discusses Future Steps For Blm Activism, Beatrice Nisoli

Black History at UNM

This Daily Lobo article summarizes key ideas discussed at “When the Hashtag Stops Trending,” an online Zoom event hosted by African American Student Services (AASS) at UNM on June 25, 2020 in response to Black Lives Matter activism. Organizers and speakers cautioned against exhaustion and sensationalized activism in the media.


Black Faculty Alliance Statement On The Criminal Act Of Anti-Black Racist Terrorism Against Dr. Charles Becknell, Jr. And The Program Of Africana Studies, Black Faculty Alliance Unm May 2020

Black Faculty Alliance Statement On The Criminal Act Of Anti-Black Racist Terrorism Against Dr. Charles Becknell, Jr. And The Program Of Africana Studies, Black Faculty Alliance Unm

Black History at UNM

Public statement from the University of New Mexico Black Faculty Alliance (BFA) condemning the criminal act of domestic anti-Black terrorism that includes the threat of a lynching directed toward Dr. Charles Becknell, Jr. and his family. Dr. Becknell, Jr. is the Director of the Africana Studies program in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of New Mexico. Among their suggested actions, the BFA calls for "the creation of a task force to develop a survivor-focused approach for an emergency response to hate-based threats against UNM Black faculty and a truth-telling commission to document systems and behaviors that …