One of the hallmarks of American democracy is the ability of average citizens to determine the course of power through our elected democracy. Who has power, how it is used, and who benefits from that power.
We all know the story of the original Thanksgiving – how European colonizers were on the brink of starving until Native Americans provided them with enough food to make it through the winter and eventually taught them how to farm native crops until they could feed themselves.
Like many communities around this country, the citizens of Raleigh probably never imagined a seemingly random shooting of innocent civilians would occur in our community, but sadly, it has.
What does freedom really mean in a country that will do anything to ensure that some never experience it?
I am so delighted to be a part of the Shaw University family. In the last several months since I have joined Shaw University,
It’s hard to believe that it has been two years since George Floyd tragically passed away at the hands of law enforcement in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In that time, so much has changed and yet, so much has remained the same.
It seems as if the Haitian people can’t catch a break. The country suffers from all forms of instability – disasters that are both natural
The Center for Racial and Social Justice remembers and honors the life of Robert Moses, who passed away Sunday, July 25th, at the age of
Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson
Dean – Arts, Sciences & Humanities
Co-director – Center for Racial and Social Justice
One year later, we remember the stolen life of George Floyd, a Black man who was murdered in a senseless act of violence by Derek
Shaw UniversityandShaw University Center for Racial and Social Justice Statement in Response to the Shooting of Andrew Brown, Jr. ByDr. Valerie Ann JohnsonDean, Shaw University School
Shaw University hosts the website launch of its Center for Racial and Social Justice, and it begins to harness the underpinnings, the offerings, and excellence and diversity of the administrators, faculty, staff, researchers, students, families, alumni, and supporters, to ensure a more just, inclusive, peaceful, competitive and civil society, Shaw must include on its initial agenda, innovative ways and means of staving off Twenty-first Century voter suppression laws, regulations, fiats, and tactics, that threaten to take us back to the days when in 1960, Ella Baker founded SNCC at Shaw University, and the days of the Post-Reconstruction era.
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