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Review of professor Kellie Carter Jackson’s “We Refuse”, a searing history of Black resistance and guide to Black joy.

“He’ll laugh at a joke — he’ll never crack one,” says Kellie Carter Jackson, the chair of the Africana studies department at Wellesley and someone who has known Ibram X. Kendi for years.

Professor Kellie Carter Jackson on how Black Americans’ refusals of injustice have shaped our national story. While celebrating Juneteenth and Pride, remember the power of a collective saying “no.”

The New York Times reviews professor Kellie Carter Jackson's book “We Refuse,” in which she explores forms of activism used by oppressed people and offers a nuanced view of their lives.

For The Conversation, professor Ismar Volić writes that Americans break election ties in crazy ways − and jeopardize democracy in the process.

In advance of Bad Bunny's spring concert in Boston, Professor Petra Rivera-Rideau talks with “Boston Globe Today” about why the Puerto Rican rapper is an important political figure.

Mathematics professor Ismar Volić discusses how the GOP’s flawed election system enables disproportionate representation, unequal delegate allocation, and vote splitting.

Ann Zhao ‘24 shares how her own experience navigating romantic, platonic, and familial relationships influenced her debut novel, “Dear Wendy.”

Mathematics professors Ismar Volić and Andy Schultz discuss the role of mathematics in elections. Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted this event, and it was broadcast on C-SPAN.