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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

‘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

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

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

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

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

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

‘On the front lines’: Youth show influence, once again, through school strikes for climate

March 12, 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,” comments on international school strikes, at which students from around the globe demand political action to combat climate change.

Arts and Sciences
Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

Culprits of segregation missing from NYC school report

February 12, 2019

On Tuesday, an advisory panel on school integration and equity in New York City released a report suggesting that city government pursue policies that would address segregation in NYC’s public school system. Noliwe Rooks says that the report does not sufficiently account for entrenched racism and opportunity hoarding on the part of privileged, white parents.


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