Futures Forum
The Futures Forum offers written reflections, visual art, podcasts, video content, and more.
The leaders, postdocs, students, faculty, partners, and local community connected to the Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures co-cultivates a fresh, free-thinking, future forward space to carry ideas and knowledge into the world in new and different ways.
We invite you to join us on this journey!
Forging the Future of Equitable Housing through Tenant Power
Following the Tenant Power + Policy conference hosted by the Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures and HouseUS, research support specialist Jillian Morley assesses the rise of the landlord class and how tenant movements building and wielding power in response, concluding with ways organizers, researchers, and everyday tenants can get involved.
The History of Black Women at Cornell: A Conversation with Marcia Easley
On this episode of Futures Forum, we talk with Marcia Easley, a long-time Ithacan and Assistant Dean for Human Resources in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, about the contributions of Black women at Cornell, cycles of progress and backlash, and what is—and isn’t—promised in Ezra Cornell’s founding principle “… any person … any study.”
How Race Was Constructed to Undermine Solidarity: The Political Construction of Whiteness and the Incentives of Division
Beginning with the formalization of racial stratification, Kyri Murdough maps the course of systemic racism, demonstrating how difference was codified and exploited to hinder solidarity. If racial hierarchy is meant to divide, she argues, building solidarity is an act of resistance.
A Conversation with Keisha Blain
Jamila Michener and Neil Lewis, Jr. speak with Dr. Keisha N. Blain about the process of writing her new book, Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights. Dr. Blain, best-selling author and Professor of Africana Studies and History at Brown University, was the Black History Month Keynote Speaker for the Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures in February 2026.
Our Guiding Stars: Racial Justice and Equitable Futures
Integrating historical texts, printmaking, and research methodologies, Carolyn Fan presents linocuts based on interviews with the Center’s staff on quotes that inspire and motivate them to work towards racial justice and equitable futures.
Introducing the Futures Forum: A Place to Envision Equitable and Just Futures
In a time of deep inequality and uncertainty, imagining equitable and just futures is both urgent and unfinished work. This post introduces the Futures Forum, a new space created by the Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures at Cornell University to cultivate collective vision, creativity, dialogue, and hope for transformed futures.
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