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...
Nick Forster (Film and African American Studies) will moderate a discussion (via Skype) with Elaine Brown, former chairperson of the Black Panther Party following a screening...
Ed Rugemer brings to light previously overlooked connections between slave codes established in Barbadoes (1661), adapted in Jamaica (1684) and those implemented in setting...
“Laws alone don’t promise equality,” as Angela Onwuachi-Willig illustrates using the heartbreaking 1920’s court case case Rhinelander v. Rhinelander. Societal norms and...
Jonathan Holloway, Elizabeth Alexander and Angela Onwuachi-Willig are published in the newly released collection of essays titled, The New Black: What Has Changed–and...
