Calls to abolish police from college campuses have grown considerably louder over the years. In particular, following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, colleges were forced to seriously consider their role in legitimizing the institution of policing. For decades, however, concerned students, faculty, staff, and community members have sounded the alarm that, for marginalized people, campus policing is as detrimental as municipal policing.

Yesterday morning, Leila Hamoud, a Black woman undergraduate, was arrested in her classroom at Winston Salem State University (WSSU) by university police officers. Dr. Davis and the Campus Abolition Research Team weigh in on the promise of abolition for our nation’s HBCUs.

Frequent incidents of racist hate speech on college and university campuses continue to instigate an ideological battleground between legal purists, anti- racist scholars, and those otherwise situated somewhere therein. We find that arguments from legal purists are predicated upon a false-equivalency between racist and anti-racist speech where the effect, value, and embedded power dynamics of the former are often disregarded.

Temple University senior Samuel Collington was shot and killed last November during an attempted robbery and carjacking near his North Philadelphia apartment. Collington’s death by gun violence followed the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old Philadelphian near Temple’s campus two weeks earlier.

More than two decades after the Civil Rights Movement, Henry Hampton’s award-winning 14-part documentary Eyes on the Prize chronicled a transformative period in American social and political history and those individuals closest to the grassroots organizing that made it all possible. Altogether, the film series embodied the Pan-African principle of Sankofa, bringing from the past that which may have otherwise been forgotten.

Misogyny is an elusive concept. This is not because we cannot comprehend what it means when explained; it is because many of us are still trying to understand what ‘sexism’ and ‘patriarchy’ really mean In addition, misogyny is too easily reduced to extreme forms of how women and girls are despised and disregarded which we often feel mischaracterizes how we think of our own relationships to women and girls.