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‘Not a local affair’: Evanston reparations could harm national movement

March 23, 2021

Olúfémi Táíwò, professor of Africana studies, and Noliwe Rooks, director of American studies and professor of Africana studies, comment on the city of Evanston approving a reparations program.

Law and Policy
Arts and Sciences

Experts discuss Biden’s sweeping infrastructure package

March 26, 2021

Cornell University experts are available to weigh in on a newly proposed $3 trillion infrastructure plan for infrastructure, schools and families.

Law and Policy
Energy, Environment & Sustainability

NYC takes ‘significant, systemic steps’ toward desegregation of schools

December 18, 2020

Noliwe Rooks, an expert in cultural and racial implications for education, says if New York City enacts the changes announced by Mayor de Blasio it would be a major step toward integrating the nation’s largest and most segregated school system.

New York City
Arts and Sciences

NYC parents face ‘impossible decision’ on in-person education

October 28, 2020

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday parents whose children are currently enrolled in all-remote classes will now have until Nov. 15 to opt back into in-person classes. Noliwe Rooks, an expert in cultural and racial implications for education, says it’s the responsibility of New York City officials to lead conversations with parents around safety concerns of in-person education, rather than making their anxieties a political issue.

New York City
Arts and Sciences

Tulsa coffins reflect excavation of ‘uncomfortable truths’

October 22, 2020

Noliwe Rooks, professor of American studies at Cornell University, says the discovery of 11 coffins in Tulsa represents our past and present but does not have to represent our future.

Arts & Humanities

NYC school reopening plan puts vulnerable Black, Latinx students at risk

July 8, 2020

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that public schools will not fully reopen for the upcoming school year. New York City students will return to school on a limited basis with only one to three days a week of in-person education and remote learning the remainder of the days. Noliwe Rooks, expert in cultural and racial implications for education says Mayor de Blasio needs to immediately outline plans for supporting low-income Black and Latinx children, and their families, who will be greatly impacted by this plan.

New York City
Arts and Sciences
Industrial and Labor Relations

Trump’s Juneteenth rally in Tulsa to inflame racial tension

June 12, 2020

Noliwe Rooks, professor of American studies at Cornell University, and Derrick Spires, professor English, discuss Juneteenth and what it represents in 2020. 

Law and Policy

Cornell experts on coronavirus - Societal impact

May 12, 2020

COVID-19 presents challenges not only to public health but also to the way our societies function. Social distancing, remote work and businesses closures are changing the way we communicate with each other and posing important questions about how to protect under served populations and overall mental health. 


After 65 years, is the dream of Brown v. Board dead?

May 15, 2019

Noliwe Rooks, professor of American studies at Cornell University and author of the book “Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and The End of Public Education,” says that segregation persists in American schools in large part due to white parents’ unwillingness to send their children to schools where they would have Black classmates.

Social & Behavioral Sciences
Law and Policy

Toni Morrison’s moral clarity ‘soothed restless souls’

August 6, 2019

American novelist Toni Morrison died at the age of 88, her publisher announced Tuesday. Morrison received a master's in English from Cornell University in 1955 and was the first African-American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. Her work, which centered around issues of black identity and race, was “masterful, purposeful, precise and challenging,” says Noliwe Rooks, professor in the Africana Studies & Research Center.

Arts & Humanities

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