Dr. Carl Suddler, Assistant Professor of History, recently published an article on The Brookings Institution’s blog. The piece is titled “There’s truth in numbers in policing – until there isn’t” and is part of Brookings’ “How We Rise” series. Suddler is also the author of Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York (NYU Press, 2019). Read an excerpt from his Brookings piece below, along with the full article here.

“At the heart of many police reform arguments is accountability. But to hold the police accountable for misconduct, data related to police violence must not only become more accessible, it must also become more reliable. But what if this is just not possible? What if we cannot ever rely on this data to be true?”

Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, was recently quoted in a New York Times article headlined “White Americans Say They Are Waking Up to Racism. What Will It Add Up To?” The article discusses white responses to anti-racism activists’ calls for systemic changes in U.S. society that go beyond dismantling racist symbols and language alone. Read the full piece here.

Dr. Carl Suddler, Assistant Professor of History, was quoted in an article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution about the greater significance attached to this year’s Juneteenth holiday in light of recent protests against racial injustice and police brutality. Suddler is the author of Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York (NYU Press, 2019). Read the excerpt featuring Suddler below, along with the full article, written by Shelia Poole, here: “Why Juneteenth will take on greater meaning this year: Racial injustice, police brutality, protests will raise profile of the day.”

“Maybe there’s going to be a change from this point forward,” said Carl Suddler, an assistant professor of history at Emory University and author of “Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York.” “I think there’s something to be said about what the protests have done and what organizations have done to raise awareness for a lot of people about Juneteenth. This level of awareness and level of awakening that’s happening is great to see.”

Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, was recently interviewed on The Washington Post’s Cape Up podcast. In the conversation with host Jonathan Capehart, Anderson discusses a persistent pattern of racialized injustice through U.S. history and concludes that “We actually punish black people for being resilient.” She is, most recently, the author of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2018). Listen to the full interview here: “The author of ‘White Rage’ on the persistent pattern of punishing blacks for their resilience.“

Dr. Polly J. Price, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law and Professor of Global Health, was interviewed on Atlanta’s NPR affiliate, WABE, about the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to preserve the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Price is a public health law scholar as well as a legal historian and citizenship and immigration law expert. She is associated faculty in the History Department. Read and listen to the interview, in which Price identifies the lingering uncertainties despite the ruling, here: “Emory Immigration Expert Says DACA Ruling Leaves Questions.”