Protests continue this week in Portland, Oregon in the wake of federal law enforcement being deployed to the city. On Saturday, the protest included the participation of a nude woman who confronted officers wearing nothing but a mask and hat.

In response to current and ongoing anti-Black violence in the United States, the Department of Comparative Literature at Cornell is committed to a reflection on its educational and institutional frameworks, with the goal of developing anti-racist practices in the classroom and in the Department as a whole.

A group of 32 students from three colleges at Cornell will make up the first cohort of Humanities Scholars in a new program that will start in the fall, offered by the College of Arts & Sciences.