18. Should Black Teachers Lead Activism on Campus?

We felt it was crucial to share the lens of activism on campus from the eyes of a faculty member doing great work at one of the nation's most progressive colleges. Professor Jerome Stewart is the Assistant Professor of Business & Society/Sustainable Business at San Francisco State University and joins us in this conversation surrounding campus activism and how SFSU still has a long way to go in its efforts of creating a safe, autonomous, spaces for Black students and faculty.

If you haven’t been on a college campus in some time, this episode lends itself as a guide to the many obstacles Black students and faculty face, even at America’s more progressive universities. The Black Campus Movement of the 1960’s rendered as a catalyst of protests to disrupt the tradition of inequities in higher education and thus created the pathway to Black Student Unions and African American studies throughout the country. This legacy has been transformative in academia and in the presence of Black life on campus however; as our guests on this episode discuss, while there have been many triumphs in the Black plight on college campuses, there is still a long way to go.