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Hello and welcome to Hydrapalooza, Flaming Hydra’s new weekly post on our latest escapades. “It’s been terrifying to see institution after institution across the country cave on diversity, freedom of speech, and academic integrity,” writer, editor, and Washington Post opinion columnist Karen Attiah wrote in April, after her course on Race and Journalism at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs was reportedly canceled in the wake of campus protests over the war in Gaza. Attiah later announced that she would be teaching the course intended for Columbia on her own at what she dubbed Resistance Summer School, which currently has a waiting list of nearly 4,000. and join us for just $3/month for a full subscription. You’ll get more great interviews like this, along with the best journalism, comics, essays, reviews, and fiction on the whole internet. Subscribers also get commenting privileges, and can play the weird new weekly HYDRANYM word game. An excerpt from the Q & A:Mark Yarm: Tell me about Resistance Summer School. How have the first few classes gone? Karen Attiah: So far, it’s been amazing. We’re teaching at the Martin Luther King Jr. library here, and it’s been so cool to see in-person students. We usually have around 200 to 300 people who attend the live lectures, and then afterwards we have discussion sections and such. It’s been such an antidote to all the despair and misery just to have this community of people who are realizing that we were—if not outright lied to in our history books, we definitely are suffering from a whole lot of omission when it comes not only to race, but even media history. I started my class talking about Japan and the Racial Equality Proposal of 1919 at the League of Nations, which was rejected by the U.S., the U.K., and Australia at the time. This is why I created the course. When I learned about this as a working journalist, I was like, How the hell did I not know that it was Japan that tried to champion global racial equality at the birth of what would become the United Nations?
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