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Rams in the News: LA City Council Latinos’ Racism Undercuts Progress

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CLIPS OF THE WEEK

TANYA K. HERNÁNDEZ
Latino L.A. City Council members’ racist slurs expose the problem that undercuts progress
NBC News 10-12-2022
“There are many Nury Martinezes,” said Fordham University law professor Tanya K. Hernández, the author of the recently published book “Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality.”

CHRISTINA GREER
Stacey Abrams balances pragmatism and hope, amid Georgia’s midterm elections
NPR 10-07-2022
But first, I need to clear up a tiny misconception with a woman who has spent her career studying Black candidates – Dr. Christina Greer.

NWSL Commissioner Discusses Yates Report At SBJ World Congress Of Sports
Forbes 10-12-2022
Jessica Berman has wanted to be a sports commissioner since her teen years growing up in Brooklyn, NY. Her passion took her to the University of Michigan, where she studied Sports Management, and then back to New York for her Juris doctorate at Fordham Law School.

GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Which Food Retailers Are Among America’s Most Innovative Companies?
Progressive Grocer 10-10-2022
Trader Joe’s and Amazon have been named among the top 25 innovative companies on the fifth annual American Innovation Index (Aii) by the Fordham University, Gabelli School of Business’ Responsible Business Coalition and market research firm Rockbridge Associates Inc.

SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY

TANYA K. HERNÁNDEZ
Latino L.A. City Council members’ racist slurs expose the problem that undercuts progress
NBC News 10-12-2022
“There are many Nury Martinezes,” said Fordham University law professor Tanya K. Hernández, the author of the recently published book “Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality.”

TANYA K. HERNÁNDEZ
Column: In a post-Nury-gate L.A., we need a mayor who can manage a city divided by racism
Los Angeles Times 10-11-2022
Tanya Kateri Hernández, an Afro Latina and a Fordham University professor who has researched anti-Black racism by Latinos, told me the most important thing the next mayor can do to help us heal is avoid treating what happened as an isolated incident.

TANYA K. HERNÁNDEZ
Black Racism is Widespread in Latino Community – Audio Unavailable
KNX – Los Angeles 10-11-2022 

A Fordham University professor who studies anti-black racism tells KNX it’s very widespread in the Latino community. “It’s part of the culture, unfortunately, and it only becomes sort of aggravated when you combine Latino-origin anti-blackness with U.S. systemic anti-blackness. It becomes quite a lethal combination,” and professor Tanya Hernández says Nury Martinez calling Councilman Mike Bonin’s son on a monkey did not come from a vacuum.

DONNA REDEL
Ooki DAO And ConstitutionDAO Challenge The Established Order
Forbes 10-13-2022
“What caught everybody’s attention about the ConstitutionDAO was the amount of money raised and the subject matter,” says Donna Redel, Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law.

ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY

BRYAN MASSINGALE
Seminar panelists: Clergy abuse has scarred minority Catholic communities
Catholic Review 10-07-2022
Blacks have suffered from clergy sex abuse, but “but it’s an invisible trauma. It’s an unknown trauma because there are Black victims, survivors, of the sexual abuse crisis,” said Father Bryan Massingale, author of “Racial Justice in the Catholic Church.” “Yet in the Catholic imagination, we usually see a white face — a white male face, overwhelmingly.”

CHRISTINA GREER
Stacey Abrams balances pragmatism and hope, amid Georgia’s midterm elections
NPR 10-07-2022
But first, I need to clear up a tiny misconception with a woman who has spent her career studying Black candidates – Dr. Christina Greer.

CHRISTINA GREER
Violent Rhetoric Spikes
MSNBC The Katie Phang Show 10-08-2022
Joining me now is Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University and the author of “Black Ethnics.” 

CHRISTINA GREER
Looking Ahead to the Midterms
MSNBC The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart 10-09-2022
A sound-off panel joins me, now…Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University. 

CHRISTINA GREER
Stacey Abrams Balances Hope and Pragmatism – Audio Unavailable
KOPB Portland 10-08-2022
Christina Greer, a political scientist at Fordham University, talks about how Abrams balances hope and pragmatism, how her heritage informs her politics, and how she mirrors black women politicians who have made history.

GIACOMO SANTANGELO
Morning Jobs Report – Audio Unavailable
KCBS AM 10-07-2022
For more on the newly released job numbers were joined on the KCBS central news line by Giacomo Santangleo, economics professor at Fordham University. 

TOM BEAUDOIN
‘Kindness is inclusive’: Opponents of religious instruction in Staunton find it exclusive
Staunton News Leader 10-1-2022
Tom Beaudoin is professor of religion at New York City’s Fordham University. He told The News Leader that, while the program claims to be “non-evangelistic” on its website, he’s not sure that’s the case based on other website text.

ATHLETICS

Demorat Throws For 4 Tds, 499 Yards In Fordham’s 40-28 Win
The Associated Press  10-08-2022
FCS passing leader Tim DeMorat threw for 499 yards and four touchdowns and Fordham overcame Lehigh in the second half for a 40-28 victory Saturday.

ALUMNI

NWSL Commissioner Discusses Yates Report At SBJ World Congress Of Sports
Forbes 10-12-2022
Jessica Berman has wanted to be a sports commissioner since her teen years growing up in Brooklyn, NY. Her passion took her to the University of Michigan, where she studied Sports Management, and then back to New York for her Juris doctorate at Fordham Law School.

The Untold History of Women of Color in Law
WCMH-CBO (NBC)  10-09-2022
Eunice [Hunton Carter] became the first person of color, male or female, to graduate from Smith College and then one of the first to earn a law degree from Fordham University. So she graduated from law school. It was amazing. Hardly any women were attorneys, and hardly any black women.

Hilarie Burton Morgan visits Rachael Ray Show
The Rachael Ray Show 10-10-2022
“I went to Fordham at Lincoln Center here in the city, because I wanted to get into the law school there. Like, I was studying psychology and criminology, and that was my game plan. And again, got sidetracked.”

OBITUARIES

Frank Tomeo, Fordham Track Champion, 80
Port Washington News 10-06-2022
While at Fordham University, he was twice elected Fordham athlete of the year. Frank still stands as one of the best middle distance runners in Fordham track history. In 1962, Frank set a new school record in the indoor half mile with a time of 1:51.8.

Lawrence Vincent Schaefer, leader in Montessori education, 91
Minneapolis Star Tribune 10-01-2022
He earned a PhD and MA in history from Fordham University, as well as BA and MA in education from Fairfield University. He served in the US Navy as an officer from 1955-1958. Larry became an influential global leader in Montessori education and devoted his professional life, which extended to the day he passed, to Montessori education and, in particular, the unique needs and potential of the adolescent.

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