Research Guides: Cultural Intelligence Resources: Follow the Conversation

Follow The Conversation

Here are some suggestions on people to follow on social media that are engaged in social justice, activism, and culture, that can can offer more perspective on current discourse and trending topics.. This is not an endorsement of any person listed below.

There are many voices in social justice to follow and we will update this section with suggestions every semester.

Rachel Cargle
An academic, writer, and lecturer. Her activist and academic work are rooted in providing intellectual discourse, tools, and resources that explore the intersection of race and womanhood.
Austin Channing
A media producer, author, and speaker providing inspired leadership on racial justice in America. She is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness and the Executive Producer of The Next Question: A Web Series Imagining How Expansive Racial Justice Can Be
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Author of award-winning essay collection THICK, is an associate professor in the iSchool at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life (UNC). Her current research examines racial capitalism in platform economies.
Kimberlé Crenshaw (On Twitter)
Professor at Columbia University's Law School and researcher who created the terms, critical race theory, intersectionality, and #sayhername.
Brittany Packnett Cunningham
An award-winning educator, organizer, writer, and leader. Brittany is an NBC News and MSNBC Contributor, a Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, and host of UNDISTRACTED, news and justice podcast with an intersectional lens on the world.
Josie Duffy Rice
A journalist and law school graduate whose work is primarily focused on prosecutors, prisons, and other criminal justice issues. Currently, she is President of The Appeal, a news publication that publishes original journalism about the criminal justice system.
Clint Smith III
An educator, author, and staff writer at The Atlantic. He has previously received fellowships from New America, the Art For Justice Fund, Cave Canem, and the National Science Foundation.

Voices of SMU

Voices of SMU Oral History Project
Voices of SMU is a collaboration between students, alumni, and entities across campus to diversify the University Archives’ holdings.
Voices of SMU Blog
Learn more about the Voice of SMU project here.

Podcasts

1619 Podcast
Hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times.
Undistracted Podcast
Hosted by Brittany Packnett Cunningham, Meteor.
Justice in America
Hosted by Josie Duffy Rice, The Appeal.
Intersectionality Matters! With Kimberlé Crenshaw
Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, African American Policy Forum.
Talking About Race
Hosted by Reni Eddo-Lodge, author of Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race.
Code Switch
Co-hosted by Shereen Marisol Meraji & Gene Demby, NPR.