The 2014 Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize has been awarded to two degree recipients: Kristin Graves (Fren/AFAM) for her essay, “Mapping La Belle Creole,” and Anna Kesson (HSAR/AFAM...
David Joseph-Gotenier is the 2014 William Pickens Prize winner for outstanding senior essay in the field of African and African American Studies. The Pickens Prize carries a...
Congratulations to Shawnna Thomas (‘15), on the recent distinction of being named a 2014 Wallace Prize second place fiction winner for her short story, “Children with...
Nigerian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize recipient Wole Soyinka delivered the 2014 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Lecture on Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at the Whitney Humanities...
Elijah Anderson talks about his new book, The Iconic Ghetto, and his theory of a new racism manifested in the murder of Trayvon Martin, distinguishable he says from the overt...
At the first Calhoun College reunion in February, alumni debated what would be a meaningful way to make visible the legacy of slavery woven into Yale’s origins, and...
“Yale Professor Jonathan Holloway describes childhood, civil rights in community-wide lecture”
Yale University African American Studies Professor and Department Chair...
Kaneesha Parsard’s review, “The Medium of Emancipation,” a review of Lawrence Scott’s book, Light Falling on Bamboo (2012) appeared in small axe salon, 28...
Vesla Weaver and Kica Matos have written an editorial published today in YDN, “Recognize, revalue and rid,” that urges local government—and citizens—to address...
Phoenix Alexander will present a paper on the topic, “Power-as-rupture, power facilitating,” at the 40th Annual Conference of the African Literature Association - Texts,...
AS UCLA considers departmentalization of its African American Studies program, Robin D.G. Kelley has written an incisive argument for departmentalization, answering exhausted...
