A UVA research team, including three Batten professors, uncovered a quantifiable relationship between Confederate memorials and the explicitly racist practice of lynching.

A team of Batten and psychology researchers are bringing an empirical perspective to a national conversation.

Through a new BattenX educational module, CEOs and nonprofit executives from across the globe are reckoning with systemic racism.

Wornie Reed, Ph.D., discusses the police use of force—both in general and against African Americans in particular—and the role of police union contracts in protecting police officers accused of misconduct, including the misuse of force.

Police and students can learn from one another if they talk more, according to Batten's Brian N. Williams, an associate professor of public policy.

Please join Batten School Dean Ian Solomon as he marks Juneteenth (a day early) with reflection and celebration on Friday, June 18, from 10:30–11:30AM.

The School's new postdoctoral fellows will investigate perceptions of minorities in academia and the workplace, among other subjects.

In a commentary for Bloomberg Law, Batten's Brian N. Williams and co-author Carmen J. Williams, a third-year law student at the UVA School of Law, say the conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd marks a turning point. The path forward requires enacting needed reforms and courageous leadership by prosecutors and others.

The present work interrogates the history of Confederate memorializations by examining the relationship between these memorializations and lynching, an explicitly racist act of violence.