The Importance of Land and Labor Acknowledgements in Higher Education

Layla McCloud: I'm a sister professor of higher education at Grand Valley State University. TJ Stewart: My interest in anti-blackness as a phenomenon stems from an op-ed kind of piece that I wrote on labor acknowledgments and honoring the sacrifice of black Americans. Layla says she's always encouraging her students to ask different questions, right? And to really interrogate, are they doing certain things because that's the norm of the field or what connection do they have to that?"