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“Join us on May 13th at 8:00 p.m. EST (5:00 p.m. PST) as thought leaders around the country discuss the current crisis, explore...
Doctoral candidate Teona Williams has been named the 2020 Medgar and Myrlie Evers Research Scholar.
“The Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) and the...
African American Studies Department Statement on COVID-19
As the public health crisis associated with the Coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold, there have been disturbing...
Stephanie Andrade’s latest op-ed, in collaboration with two other scholars and based in large part, on her dissertation research on the dynamics and consequences of...
Philip McHarris’ latest article published in Essence magazine:
“THOSE LIVING IN PUBLIC HOUSING THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY ARE PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE TO THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS AND...
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Afropop closes its 12th season with award winning documentary
Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela: A Son’s Tribute to Unsung Heroes by Thomas...
Philip McHarris’ latest essay published in The Washington Post:
“If former New York mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg was missing from action in the...
Professor Hazel V. Carby’s recent book, Imperial Intimacies, was recently featured as a 6-part series in Public Books, an online magazine of ideas, scholarship, and the...
Ambre Dromgoole and Davis Butner are hitting their scholarly stride in the sweet spot between art and science.
Their projects are quite different from each.
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Hazel Carby and Saidiya Hartman, two eminent scholars and long-time intellectual collaborators in the realm of race, culture and black women’s lives, sat down for a...
Associate Professor Crystal Feimster talks about her course focusing on the “long Civil Rights Movement” with Yale President Peter Salovey, to commemorate Martin Luther King...