{"id":167996,"date":"2021-01-18T07:15:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T12:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=167996"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:05:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:05:39","slug":"brave-space-sharde-davis-mason-holland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/01\/brave-space-sharde-davis-mason-holland\/","title":{"rendered":"Brave Space: Shard\u00e9 Davis and Mason Holland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a virtual town hall hosted by UConn\u2019s African American Cultural Center amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests in July 2020, student Guymara Manigat &#8217;21 (CAHNR) and alumna Wanjiku Gatheru &#8217;20 (CAHNR), pointed out that the University responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with a 1-credit hour course, but had not done something similar to address the pandemic of anti-Black racism.<\/p>\n<p>President Tom Katsouleas promised to make such a course part of the curriculum, and after a collaborative effort led by faculty of color across the University, <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/09\/new-course-introduces-students-us-anti-black-racism\/\">the online course, &#8220;U.S. Anti-Black Racism,&#8221;<\/a> opened to the University community in early fall 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest installment of the Brave Space podcast series, Julie Bartucca spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/06\/uconn-professors-hashtag-goes-viral-fight-racism\/\">Shard\u00e9 Davis<\/a>, assistant professor of communication, one of the three faculty coordinators for the course, and Mason Holland &#8217;23 (CLAS), president of the UConn chapter of the NAACP, about what the course means for UConn and what else the University needs to do to address the issue of anti-Black racism.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-167996-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/masonshardeBraveSpaceUT.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/masonshardeBraveSpaceUT.mp3\">https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/masonshardeBraveSpaceUT.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 2020, UConn students made a pointed observation: the University had no single course devoted to the epidemic of anti-Black racism in the U.S. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":161914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2235,2225,2306,2234],"tags":[2259],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1929],"class_list":["post-167996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-storrs","category-uconn-voices","category-university-life","tag-uconn-life","series-bravespace"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 00:58:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167996"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168010,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167996\/revisions\/168010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/161914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167996"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=167996"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=167996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}