From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter: Inside the fight for racial justice at Penn

While many Penn alumni believe that America is more sharply divided now than during the civil rights era, 1974 College graduate Gerald Early sees a similar strategy being used in both movements: the power of creating crisis.

“Back when I was growing up, people would talk about jobs, they’d talk about freedom, they talked about getting rid of Jim Crow, getting rid of segregation,” Early, who is the chair of the African and African American Studies Department at…