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The Ford School and its research centers will be hosting a variety of events during February, Black History Month, examining a range of topics concerning the struggles for racial equity. The Center for Racial Justice, Weiser Diplomacy Center and...

The Anti-Racism Collaborative—a strategic space for U-M community engagement on research and scholarship on anti-racism—has named five faculty members as Research and Community Impact Fellows: Melissa Borja, Charles H.F. Davis III, William Lopez,...

In a lengthy interview for Essence, Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence and Hope Credit Union CEO Bill Bynum spoke about his partnership with Netflix to highlight banking discrimination in a 3-part limited series called Banking On Us. "You...

As the University of Michigan’s Anti-Racism Faculty Hiring Initiative moves forward, the Office of the Provost is inviting proposals for the second round of clusters of new tenure-track faculty whose scholarship focuses on structural racism and...

The University of Michigan is welcoming the first two postdoctoral fellows under its new Anti-Racism Collaborative. Dominique Adams-Santos will work with Celeste Watkins-Hayes in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy as the associate director...

Fall term 2021 will see another packed events calendar, as the Ford School continues to attract some of the most compelling experts and voices from around the world. In conjunction with the launch of the new Center for Racial Justice, the Racial...

The University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy is launching a new Center for Racial Justice designed to expand knowledge about the complex intersections between race and public policy and create a community of leaders, scholars and students...

Eight new University of Michigan faculty positions have been selected for funding in the first round of hires that will be a part of the Anti-Racism Faculty Hiring Initiative.  One of those new hires will be at the Ford School, with a focus on...

One element of the struggle for economic equity in Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) communities is the intentional denial of support networks that provide funding, customers, connections or other resources for businesses and...

The University of Michigan is pleased to welcome Celeste Watkins-Hayes as a collegiate professor of public policy (pending Regental approval) in the Department of Sociology and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.  "I am thrilled to join the...