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Parkland Rising follows the movement that emerged from the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Online screening and Q&A with Mason Alumna and film producer Sara Ramaker and director Cheryl McDonough: Sept 21 at 1:30pm.

Mason's Student Body President, Shelby Adams, is a criminology, law and society major. She works closely with Vice President David O’Connell.

An up-to-date, evolving source for anti-racism learning and support reflecting a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives and opportunities available to the George Mason University community.

Spring 2020 sent Mason students and professors into the world of online teaching, many for the first time, with steep learning curves on an accelerated schedule. Four English Department professors explained how they succeeded—against the odds.

George Mason University President Gregory Washington authors a thoughtful essay, published on the NBC Today site, about the historical triumphs and failings of America's founding fathers and his work to transform Mason into an exemplar of anti-racism.

This Fall 2020, Russian Program is offering a Soviet and Russian film course. This course investigates the development of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, from their origins to the present. Beginning with the experimental masterpieces of Eisenstein, Vertov and Dovzhenko, film shaped and responded to Soviet ideology, while Russian cinema continues to direct contemporary Russian culture, even as it reveals social contradictions. World renowned filmmakers including Eisenstein and Vertov, Tarkovsky, Zvyagintsev and Todorovsky engage in active dialogue with each other and world cinema to create a uniquely rich cinematic tradition. This course will consider major film movements, directors, trends, and genres of this tradition, with attention to their innovative techniques and ideological contexts.