I feel this is very much related to the question of how to move forward beyond the graffiti and enable a long-term change. Protests, as well as student initiatives, are powerful when their energy is translated into meaningful change.
"Student Activism in the Archives: An Overdue Conversation with Maya Moretta" is part of a podcast series by Columbia University’s library. At a time when a lot of statues were being toppled around university campuses, this Georgetown University student started digging into the archives and tried to build a movement that would start from all the hidden historical information hidden so that such requests could have a deeper ground and not be dismissed so easily.
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Maya Moretta is a recent graduate of Georgetown University. As a student, Moretta had worked with the Georgetown Slavery Archive to compile