English Professor Tsitsi Jaji rose to the unique challenge that 2020 has presented. The traumatic deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor by the police, a deadly ongoing pandemic, and more culminated in Dr. Jaji transforming her African Diaspora Literature course in the English and African & African American Studies departments into African Diaspora Literature: Black Lives Matter. Dr. Jaji understood that it would be impossible to study the lives and cultures of Africans and African Americans without confronting the racial tension building across the country. “The questions that I'm thinking about and the sense of meaning that I find in my work naturally dovetail with this moment,” she said. Read more about her work and the impact of cultivating critical and relevelant discussion in the classroom with her students here. Additionally, learn about Professor Jaji in a personal interview here.