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This includes research driven explorations of the intersections between race, community development, health, technology, education, gender, sustainability, diasporas, and environmental justice.

The Institute aims to inform the public about the challenges and opportunities facing Black Boston, via our policy brief series Resilience , and our longstanding Trotter Review, a journal of articles addressing current Black studies, race, and race relations in the United States and abroad. By disseminating such research it seeks not only to address racial disparities but to also support the socio-economic resilience of Black communities.

The Institute also publishes research reports and occasional papers on a broad range of topics in the areas of education, employment and training, public health, economic and community development, as well as race relations.

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Directions More Info. We stand in support of their courageous families, communities and with all those demonstrating in solidarity across the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania. We cannot forget to address our local experiences with police brutality that do not receive mainstream attention.

We have to tap into our Black radical traditions to find new ways to fight. Many are offering a diverse range of specific solutions, such as defunding of police, transferring funds from police to communities of color, calling for the arrest of cops, the implementation of anti-racism classes, requiring police to wear body cams, the removal of racist symbols and statues, and calls for federal action against police brutality, racial profiling and militarized police.

Others are realizing that they can breathe-- like dragons unmasked they are trying to wash away centuries of Black wounds by breathing fire.

The William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture was founded at the University of Massachusetts Boston in to address the concerns of Black communities in Boston and Massachusetts through research, technical assistance, and public service.

The Institute takes its name from early twentieth century African American activist William Monroe Trotter, whose political advocacy, radical journalism, and Black internationalism placed Black Diasporic communities across the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa in critical conversation. In this light, the Trotter Institute aims to serve as an intellectual hub that can support the mission of social justice for Black communities.

This includes research driven explorations of the intersections between race, community development, health, technology, education, gender, sustainability, diasporas, and environmental justice.