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[https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01527-z by Melissa Nobles, Chad Womack, Ambroise Wonkam & Elizabeth Wathuti 8/6/22 nature] | [https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01527-z by Melissa Nobles, Chad Womack, Ambroise Wonkam & Elizabeth Wathuti 8/6/22 nature] | ||
Science is a human endeavour that is fuelled by curiosity and a drive to better understand and shape our natural and material world. Science is also a shared experience, subject both to the best of what creativity and imagination have to offer and to humankind’s worst excesses. | Science is a human endeavour that is fuelled by curiosity and a drive to better understand and shape our natural and material world. Science is also a shared experience, subject both to the best of what creativity and imagination have to offer and to humankind’s worst excesses. | ||
=====Make Black history core to degrees, tie tenure to anti-racism efforts===== | |||
[https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02235-2 by Cheryl Gore-Felton, Christina Tara Khan & Jacqueline Njenga 28/7/20 nature] | |||
Elite institutions are well positioned to set the standard on how to dismantle systemic racism and discrimination. As African American and Black women working at a leading US medical school, we are tired of rhetoric and euphemisms that are not yet matched with policy and action. We are ready to engage in a productive partnership with our institutional leaders to create a culture of diversity and inclusion that acts on principles of social justice and human rights. | |||
===== Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ ===== | ===== Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ ===== | ||
