Black Lives Matter Blog

I am racist. I learned to be racist and anti-Black from my family. I have spent most of my life learning how to be anti-racist. I know this because I am white. My immigrant grandparents spent much of their lives in southeast Texas, where Black people lived in broken-down shacks on the same land with white people who owned the land and lived in the “big house.” I come from people who lived in that...

The ACPA Foundation stands in solidarity with all who seek a more just and equitable world, starting with our college and university campuses and the Black Lives Matter movement. Institutional racism is real, and we support the ACPA members, particularly our Black colleagues, who have had their personal self-worth, professional advancement, or sense of wellbeing compromised because of oppressive...