Clayborne Carson, professor of history and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, discusses the importance of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the struggle leading to the Montgomery bus boycott.

Written by Melina Platas Izama, doctorate student in political science, the blog entry addresses the emerging trend of morality politics in Africa and beyond, including, though not limited to, criminalizing homosexuality. 

The story features NoViolet Bulawayo, Wallace Stegner Fellow, on her novel, "We Need New Names." 

The blogger mentions Stanford NER, Stanford’s natural language processing named entity recognition software; it also cites Stanford’s Mapping the Republic of Letters project as inspiration for the author’s own endeavor.

The article quotes Anthony Marra, lecturer in English, on being one of the first winners of the new literary prize.

An editorial by Dan Edelstein, a Professor of French and Italian at Stanford, discussing why neglecting the existential justifications for a humanities major may risk alienating future students, the group most important for the discipline's survival.

Clayborne Carson, professor of history and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, discusses the importance of recognizing pivotal moments in the civil rights movement. 

This article mentions Stanford’s seasonal book club, Another Look, which features Roth's novel “The Ghost Writer” at an upcoming event. Cynthia Haven, a visiting scholar at Stanford in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages is also mentioned for her interview with novelist Philip Roth.