Mellon Visiting Professor Silvio Luiz de Almeida and Duke History Professor John French wanted to offer students a global look at the parallel struggles for racial justice in Brazil and the United States. Their course planned an innovative final project: student contributions to a virtual exhibit about a global movement in defense of Black lives. Read more.

In the book "The Young Lords: A Radical History," Prof. Johanna Fernández tells the story of a militant Latino group in the '60s that joined a common struggle with the Black Panthers against white supremacy and colonialism. Fernández's research is based on a trove of surveillance files she obtained from the NYPD after a long legal battle.

Two experts in U.S.-Mexico trade relationships say that COVID-19 showed the attractiveness of producing in North America. But the recently signed USMCA agreement between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada will need to redefine essential supply chains and how they work.

In the rebroadcast of John Hope Franklin’s last participation in a Wednesdays at the Center seminar in 2008, Dr. Franklin revisits his decades-long journey around the biography of George Washington Williams, the author of the first African-American history in 1888. The video is introduced by Prof. Ranjana Khanna, director of the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke.