Amiri Baraka, the provocative Black writer, activist and iconic figure of the 1960’s Black Arts Movement, died today in Newark, NJ. He was 79 years old. Mr. Baraka taught at...
Jonathan Holloway talks with James G. Basker, president, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, about themes in Holloway’s recently published book, Jim Crow...
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library has acquired a memoir of prison life written in the 19th century and attributed to an African American man serving a sentence in...
A revolutionary, statesman and world icon whose righteous campaign for social equality shamed a nation and ushered in an era of political redress that he had championed for...
An article in The New York Times this week quoted a prosecutor in Detroit as saying that race relations seemed more troubled than ever: “I think when the president was...
Prime Minister of The Bahamas, Hon. Perry G. Christie, presented to Pope Francis a copy of Assistant Professor Erica James’s book, Love & Responsibility: The...
In her opinion piece, “’I Wish I Were Black’ and Other Tales of Privilege,” Angela Onwuachi-Willig reflects on the challenges that Black students face in surmounting socio-...
Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law, who is currently at Yale pursuing a Ph.D. (Sociology/African...
Vesla Mae Weaver, assistant professor of Political Science and African American Studies, Yale University, will give a talk at the Urban Ethnography Workshop, Monday, October...
Robert B. Stepto, professor of English and African American Studies, Yale, will deliver the English 127 plenary lecture on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man on Monday,...
Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver are featured in a New York Times photo spread for the article, “The Afro as a Natural Expression of Self,” (Oct. 3, 2013.)
The photo caption...
