When Norma L. Day-Vines, associate dean for faculty development at the Johns Hopkins School of Education, was charged with coming up with ways to engage faculty and staff in the issues of diversity ...

In November 2020, the DEI Shared Interest Group’s (SIG’s) book club read Isabel Wilkerson’s book, “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents.” Wilkerson’s book is about how brutal misperceptions about ...

The Department of South Asia Studies hosted authors and editors Ramnarayan Rawat and Kusuma Satyanarayana to discuss their latest work, "Dalit Journeys for Dignity: Religion, Freedom, and Caste." At ...

Chasing Dignity, the captivating novel by Rachhpal Sahota, recently ignited a dynamic discussion that brought together a diverse group of prominent readers ...

In March 2008, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign nearly imploded when reporters revealed that his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., regularly blasted the United States as irredeemably racist. “[The ...

Three-quarters of the way into Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson describes the humiliation suffered by Black passengers on a steamship in the American South before the Civil War.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oprah Winfrey will have ...