Media contributions
5Media contributions
Title Why is there still no justice for Emmett Till? Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet Al Jazeera Media type Web Date 31/12/21 Description he Jim Crow era may be gone but its spirit is alive and well. On December 6, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it has closed an investigation into the 1955 murder of Black teenager Emmett Till. The case had been reopened in 2018, a year after the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Act (the Till Act) was passed by Congress allowing crimes against Black people committed before 1970 to be reinvestigated. Persons Tommy Curry Title Racism and the equality delusion Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 16/07/21 Description The real critical race theory Persons Tommy Curry Title Tommy Curry & The Real Critical Race Theory Media name/outlet The Philosopher & The News Media type Radio Duration/Length/Size 1hr and 9min Date 15/06/21 Description Why is the political right so riled up about Critical Race Theory? And what does the theory itself actually claim? Has Critical Race Theory simply become an umbrella term for all discourse to do with race and racism? And if so, are the accounts of racism as a systemic issue a watered-down account of Critical Race Theory’s more radical critique and diagnosis of the sources of racism?
Tommy Curry is professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His book 2018 The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood won the American Book Award. Curry pulls no punches in his account of how Critical Race Theory has been gentrified by institutional philosophy, and has purposefully forgotten its more radical roots in the work of people like Derrick Bell, who proclaimed that “racism is permanent” and that “black people will never gain full equality in this country."Persons Tommy Curry Title CRED Sewell report offers whites a remedy to the pestilence of race consciousness Media name/outlet The Herald Media type Print Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 1/04/21 Description The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (CRED) report is the latest attempt by government sponsored opinion-makers to persuade key stakeholders that the growing concern academics, and activists have about institutional racism in the UK is merely a matter of opinion and identity politics, not verifiable fact. Persons Tommy Curry Title The Overlooked and Pervasive Sexual Abuse of Boys and Young Men Media type Radio Date 24/02/21 Description In the past few years, we’ve witnessed how powerful institutions including the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, and others have hidden decades of sexual abuse toward boys and young men. And while many of those institutions have faced consequences ranging from changes in leadership to lawsuits—those consequences can't erase the shame and suffering many of the victims faced. Persons Tommy Curry