Admissions & Aid Applying to Batten Admissions Blog Posts Tagged with Racial Justice and Equity Brown-Iannuzzi, Claibourn, Trawalter: ‘Confederate memorials are associated with hate’ — New UVA study shows ‘significant’ correlation between lynchings and monuments A UVA research team, including three Batten professors, uncovered a quantifiable relationship between Confederate memorials and the explicitly racist practice of lynching. Read More Research and Commentary, Racial Justice and Equity, Social Equity New UVA Study Finds Correlation Between Lynchings and Confederate Monuments A team of Batten and psychology researchers are bringing an empirical perspective to a national conversation. Read More Research and Commentary, Racial Justice and Equity, Democracy Teaching Today’s Leaders to Champion Racial Equity Through a new BattenX educational module, CEOs and nonprofit executives from across the globe are reckoning with systemic racism. Read More Racial Justice and Equity, Racial Justice and Equity, Leadership, Social Equity "Policing and African Americans: What the Data Say" with Wornie Reed 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. Read More Racial Justice and Equity Batten Researcher Brings Police, Students Together to Better Understand Each Other 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. Read More Racial Justice and Equity, Racial Justice and Equity, Crime and Justice Andrea Headley Read More Batten, Public Administration, Racial Justice and Equity Batten Reads: Celebrating Juneteenth 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. Read More Batten, Racial Justice and Equity Batten's New Postdoctoral Researchers to Focus on Diversity, Social Identity The School's new postdoctoral fellows will investigate perceptions of minorities in academia and the workplace, among other subjects. Read More Racial Justice and Equity, Racial Justice and Equity, Social Equity Policing After George Floyd: Where Do We Go From Here? 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. Read More Research and Commentary, Racial Justice and Equity, Crime and Justice Confederate monuments and the history of lynching in the American South: An empirical examination The present work interrogates the history of Confederate memorializations by examining the relationship between these memorializations and lynching, an explicitly racist act of violence. Read More Racial Justice and Equity Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 2 Next page ›› Subscribe to Racial Justice and Equity Categories Recommendations(6) Tuition and Financial Aid (1)Personal Statement(2) Admissions(35) Student Life(21) MPP(29) Batten Ambassadors(18) Faculty (1)SE Minor(3) Accelerated MPP(42) New Student(7) Curriculum(21) Events(9) Essays(4) BA(41) Alumni (1)Application(22) Policy Minor(27) Career Outcomes(5)