antiBlackness

When it comes to achieving racial diversity, music education at the university level in the U.S. still has a long way to go. One of the leading professional organizations, the Society for Music Theory, put it bluntly in 2020: “We…

When Mattel announced in January 2022 that it was releasing a new Barbie doll to honor Ida B. Wells – the famed 19th-century Black journalist and anti-lynching crusader – the company said the idea was to “inspire us to dream big.”…