On the MCRP blog, staff editors provide their commentary on a current event through a critical race lens or choose a problem discussed in one of the published articles and write about their own solutions to that problem.
January 30, 2026
by Annaelle Lafontant
Donald Trump’s campaign promise and subsequent actions to detain and deport undocumented people have once again thrust immigration into the forefront of national discourse. While Trump has taken unprecedented actions towards immigrant communities, such as transferring undocumented people within the United States to detention in Guantanamo Bay,[1] detaining individuals based on their exercise of free speech,[2] and deporting migrants to prisons in El Salvador,[3] his policies only demonstrate what is possible within a system that already criminalizes and subjugates immigrant communities. This Blog Post will highlight the intersections of immigration and race, focusing specifically on how punitive immigration policies disproportionately impact Black people.
November 17, 2025
by Andres R. Alfonso
On September 2nd, 2025, President Trump announced that US military forces killed eleven people on a boat in international waters. The administration claimed those killed were members of Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Venezuelan gang, and were considered “narco-terrorists.” Narco-Terrorism is “the involvement of terrorist organizations and Insurgent groups in the trafficking of narcotics.” After similar attacks on October 23rd, a leaked memo to Congress explained that the strikes are a part of a “non-international armed conflict with drug cartels.” Over the last two months, approximately nine strikes were carried out across the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific, killing 57 people.
February 21, 2025
by Nia Goodall
Donald Trump’s education plan reflects the startling policies drafted by The Heritage Foundation in Project 2025 (2025 Presidential Transition Project).[1] This plan includes abolishing the Department of Education (DOE), ending loan forgiveness, promoting…
February 7, 2025
by Isabela S. Gibson
In the midst of the Civil Rights Movement, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 11246 on September 24, 1965.1 This order, following the Civil Rights Act of 1964,2 intended to charge “the Secretary of Labor…with strong enforcement authority”…
February 7, 2025
by Andrew Choi
Following the 2024 Election, media coverage has been dominated by newspapers seeking to articulate how Donald Trump won the election.1 As a part of this coverage, there is a noticeable rise in articles on the shift in Black and Latino votes for Trump…
December 5, 2024
by Dymir Arthur
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As the 2024 Presidential Race approached its final chapter, the American media continued to note Vice President Kamala Harris’s substantial lead among Black voters, especially in battleground states.1 Nevertheless, the story of Black voters’ support…
June 27, 2024
by Mecca Aikens
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On March 1st, 2024, the University of Florida (“the University”) released a memo announcing its intention to eliminate its chief diversity officer position, along with its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) staff.1 The University also halted all…
June 27, 2024
by Mara Roth
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Racial disparities in capital punishment have been thoroughly documented.1 Where explicitly racist laws once codified discrimination in the imposition of the death penalty, today, disparities in capital punishment are primarily the result of forces that…
March 28, 2024
by Kylie Burke
Florida has cultivated a landscape of education policy amounting to state censorship and the dilution of African-American history curriculum to the point of inaccessibility.
The primary legislation deployed in their effort has been HB-1069.[1] The…
February 13, 2024
by Ebony Williams
Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark Supreme Court decision that struck down the separation of educational facilities based on race.[1] In Brown, African American students were denied access to public schools attended by their white counterparts…
