Savala Nolan

Nolan is Executive Director of the Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law. Her new book is Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender and the Body. You can follow her on Instagram and on her blog.

Recent Articles

Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Doesn't Do Enough for Black Americans

Biden's plan to cancel student debt is not a big or bold enough and it completely misses the mark for Black Americans

By Savala Nolan

America Needs to Examine Its Relationship to Black Suffering

Thirty years ago, all four Los Angeles Police Department officers involved in the beating of Rodney King were acquitted. Less than a year ago, the officer who killed George Floyd was convicted of second-degree murder,...

By Savala Nolan

It's Time For White People to Have Tough Conversations

I recently had dinner with a white friend. He mentioned having completed the Me and White Supremacy workbook—Layla F. Saad’s extraordinary set of exercises for people who hold white privilege and want to interrogate its...

By Savala Nolan

My Father's Life Was Shaped by Racism. So Was His Death

From the time he was sixty until he died, my dad lived on a ranch where, instead of using money to pay rent to the white couple who owned and lived on the property, he...

By Savala Nolan

White People Should Be Twice as Kind Now

I’d just finished a long evening walk in my neighborhood and was relaxed for the first time in days when I saw the white woman washing her Lexus. She probably didn’t know she was about...

By Savala Nolan

Column: White People Need to Understand Whiteness

“How do you know you’re white?” I’m talking to a hundred law students. The room is racially diverse and full of people who have gotten into top law schools. They’re committed to making racial equity...

By Savala Nolan
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