A class of Ghanaian students, ages 12 to 26, were introduced recently to the poem, Praise Song for the Day,” written by Elizabeth Alexander in honor of President Barack Obama...
Hazel Carby will speak on the panel, “Afrofuturism’s Others,” at Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, London, on Saturday, June 15, 14:00-16:00.
“In the context of Gallagher...
Elizabeth Alexander will receive the 2013 Governor’s Arts Awards for Lifetime Achievement in Literature on June 15, 2013. Celebrate Elizabeth’s life and work on the...
Jafari Allen’s commentary, “On a Black Queer Morehouse Commencement,” is published in the Huffington Post.
HuffPost Gay Voices, Monday, May 22, 2013. http://www....
A Bridge Over Troubled Urban Waters
Marcus Hunter’s article, “A Bridge Over Troubled Urban Waters,” appears online at the DuBois Review.
Abstract: Generating new...
The Department of African American Studies will join with affiliated departments to confer the combined Ph.D. on the following graduate students, Monday, May 20,
2013:
La...
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada has awarded Wendell Adjetey (African American Studies/History ‘18) a prestigious Doctoral Fellowship....
“Congratulations to Wendell Adjetey, Anusha Alles, Danielle Bainbridge, Melanie Chambliss, Claire Schwartz and Key Jo Lee, who won Beinecke library graduate fellowships for...
Wendell Adjetey (AfAm/History ‘18) has been awarded the Canadian Studies Prize (2012-2013) for graduate students for his essay, “Saving Jimmy Wilson: Canadian Racial...
Ethan Mordecai Cargill and Emily Wanger are the 2013 William Pickens Prize winners for outstanding senior essays in the field of African and African American Studies. Both...
Jayne Ptolemy has been awarded the Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize for 2013. The prize is given annually in the memory of Sylvia Boone, a noted scholar of African art, who was the...
