Origin & Press
Learn more about the origin and impact of the hashtag #BlackintheIvory. The list below is not exhaustive, but offers a flavor of the ongoing conversations that the hashtag has incited.
Printed Interviews (selected)
How Black Lives Matter Came to the Academy
The New Yorker, January 30, 2021
#BlackInTheIvory Documents Anti‐Blackness in the Academy
Women in Higher Education, September 1, 2020
From Cosmetics to NASCAR, Calls for Racial Justice Are Spreading
New York Times, June 2020
UConn Professor’s Hashtag Goes Viral In Fight Against Racism
UCONN Today, June 19, 2020
Madame Noir, June 16, 2020
Open Campus, June 12, 2020
How #BlackInTheIvory Put a Spotlight on Racism in Academia
Nature, June 11, 2020
NBC News, June 8, 2020
‘I Was Fed Up’: How #BlackInTheIvory Got Started, and What Its Founders Want to See Next
Chronicle of Higher Education, June 9, 2020
Grieving and frustrated: Black scientists call out racism in the wake of police killings
Nature, June 8, 2020
Other Press Articles (selected)
On Supporting Early-Career Black Scholars
Nature Human Behvavior, July 27, 2020
UC Davis faculty call out anti-Black racism in academia
Davis Enterprise, June 2020
Buzz Feed News, June 16, 2020
Tired Of Racism In Academia, This UT PhD Student Created #BlackInTheIvory
June 15, 2020
Black Scientists are Exposing the Racist Side of Academia on Twitter
Massive Science, June 9, 2020
Black scientists call out racism in their institutions
The Verge, June 11, 2020
Harvard Scientists #Strike4BlackLive
Harvard Magazine, June 11, 2020
Printed Articles
UNH astronomy professor inspires science strike for Black Lives Matter
New Hampshire Union Leader, June 11, 2020
On Twitter, ‘#BlackIntheIvory’ exposes racism on campus
The Hechinger Report
On Twitter, Black Scientists Call Out Racism In Academia
Science Friday, June 10, 2020
Your Tango, June 10, 2020
Resources to better understand race, racism, and policing
UC Riverside News, June 9, 2020
Black Researchers Are Holding an Academic Strike to Support BLM
Futurism, June 9, 2020
Scientists to Strike for Black Lives, #ShutDownSTEM on June 10
American Institute of Physics, June 9, 2020
Grieving and Frustrated: Black Scientists Call Out Racism in the Wake of Police Killing
Scientific American, June 9, 2020
Academics to stage Strike for Black Lives, ShutDownSTEM on 10 June
Physics Today, June 8, 2020
#blackintheivory: onderzoekers delen verhalen over racisme
DUB (in German), June 8, 2020
Scientists across the US went on strike Wednesday in support of Black Lives Matter
Herald-Mail Media, June 10, 2020
