Project News

ASU faculty reflect on the origins, meaning and implications of critical race theory amid state legislative attempts across the nation to ban it.

Despite flurry of bills banning it, the academic concept is not taught to kids.

Cultural appropriation a term that you've probably been hearing more recently. As influencers wear accessories to music festivals, as your friends go to parties in costumes, and as celebrities post videos of themselves talking in accents, they might be called out for cultural appropriation. 

Project Humanities fall-kickoff lecture sheds new light on the debate over transgender athletes in sports.

Every other Saturday morning, a group of volunteers, many from Ahwatukee, join Dr. Neal Lester in a special way of helping and connecting with people experiencing homelessness.

At its very core, “cultural appropriation” is stealing—whether intentional or not. It’s profiting off something that is not materially or culturally one’s own. It’s like plagiarism an idea or paper, submitting it as one’s own and then getting credit for it.

AZ HUGS for the Houseless, formed by Austin Davis, continues to provide necessities to people who are unsheltered a year after the project's formation.

ASU’s Project Humanities hosts event on 'toxic positivity' with author and podcast host Nora McInerny.

My daughter's elementary school in Tucson does a Civil War reenactment play. The 5th graders write the play based on their readings/studies, and act it out. Some children act as slaves and Confederate soldiers.

AZ Hugs for the Houseless helps those in need get the essentials, along with special requests like a deck of cards.