This after Dartmouth announced they’ll offer #BlackLivesMatters courses in the Spring.
Via Campus Reform:
Northwestern University’s Center for African American History has established a 15-person task force to promote the “Black Lives Matter” movement.
The “Black Lives Matter” hashtag—an anti-racism call to action that flooded social media amid the tension in Ferguson, Mo.—inspired a group of NU students and faculty members to form a committee to keep the movement active on their campus, according to the Daily Northwestern.
“We haven’t done that yet, so it was an opportunity for Northwestern faculty and students to engage with this issue through a teach-in, which says something about what we think about these things,” said Hesse.
Throughout February the “Black People Making History Committee” will organize a number of events including a teach-in Tuesday where faculty members will join a panel discussion on racial issues and deliver their own presentations.
“Working on this project, having that institutional support from Professor Bryant, from Professor Hesse and other post-docs and graduate students who are involved is really, really crucial,” NU senior Sarah Watson told the Daily Northwestern.