I’m a Black Female Scientist. On My First Day of Work, a Colleague Threatened to Call the Cops on Me.
RAVEN BAXTER, AS TOLD TO JACKIE FLYNN MOGENSEN.JUNE 15, 2020
"Over the past few weeks, a new hashtag has emerged on Twitter: #BlackintheIvory, a reference to being Black in the ivory tower of academia, which was first shared by two Black women in communications research. It has been posted thousands of times as the racial reckoning sparked by the police killing of George Floyd on May 25 spreads far beyond policing into industries like media, entertainment, food, tech, and more. Most of the tweets are from Black students, professors, researchers, and scholars sharing their stories of experiencing racism in the workplace and classroom: Getting passed over for jobs, or confused with maintenance staff, or called by the name of the one other Black person in their department."
I’m a Black Female Scientist. On My First Day of Work, a Colleague Threatened to Call the Cops on Me.