What the Center for Global Black Studies Represents for the University of Miami

With a new Black Studies center, the University of Miami undertakes a long-overdue racial reckoning.

On February 28, at the close of Black History Month, students, faculty, and staff gathered at the University of Miami’s Cesarano Plaza for a Mardi Gras-like festival to celebrate the debut of the Center for Global Black Studies. Dancers clad in colorful costumes and show-stopping headpieces swayed in sync to the sounds of junkanoo drums and a trombone.…