News about UB research and outreach relating to societal issues such as poverty, homelessness, bullying, domestic violence, human rights, diversity and inclusion. (see all topics)
The new UB Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education will work to improve how Black history and race are taught and learned in schools around the world.
UB public health faculty and students are working with Peaceprints, a local nonprofit organization, to make re-entry into the community as successful as possible for previously incarcerated people.
Anti-racism program at Boston’s Inner-City Weightlifting was effective in helping to positively shift views of race and class, “bursting the bubble of racism that currently grips our society,” says UB researcher.
Research contributes to a growing body of evidence suggesting that trying to address discrimination on the basis of criminal records without addressing parallel race-based discrimination typically fails to fix either problem, and could even worsen racial disparities.
Cecil Foster’s “They Call Me George: The Untold Story of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada” is the focus of an in-depth multimedia exhibition at the Myseum of Toronto.