Black Lives Matter Protest organized by Cincinnati for Justice
Cincinnati Black Lives Matter March
Mia Cariello, senior WGSS major, completed a 400-hour research program this past summer on the history of anti-rape activism at Ohio State from the 1970s to the present. As an Undergraduate Research Library Fellow, she was able to comb through The Lantern's digital archive and conduct interviews to piece together the history of anti-rape activism for a digital exhibit that is housed within the Reclaiming Our Histories project headed by Assistant Professor and Digital Humanities Librarian Leigh Bonds and WGSS Associate Professor Mytheli Sreenivas. View the digital exhibit and Cariello’s featured research presentation for the 2020 Autumn Undergraduate Research Festival on the Reclaiming Our Histories website.
This past summer, senior Amna Rustom co-founded the organization Cincinnati for Justice and organized a Black Lives Matter protest. After more than 16 hours of organizing, Cincinnati for Justice received $1,000 in donations, and over 500 people attended the protest. “Our love for the community and passion for social justice and equity brought us to the realization that we had the power to impact the community in such unique ways,” she writes. “We established more (socially distant) events over the summer, many of which were anti-racism and healing workshops. Since the summer we have supported the greater Cincinnati community through a winter clothing drive and a food drive.”
You can learn more about Cincinnati for Justice by following them on Facebook and Instagram.