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The CBSR is recognized for its research and public programming focused on structural racism, especially connecting scholarly knowledge of history, race, and critical studies with social justice issues. Our small research unit organizes research, symposiums, guest lectures, workshops, mentoring, and collaborative projects focused on the development and delivery of research involving Black communities across the Diaspora.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was ‘well timed’ in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word ‘Wait!’ It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This ‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’ We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied.

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.