Stories about Africana Studies

In interviews and research, faculty look for a way forward.

Alumna responds to the NEH’s challenge grant.

Johnson won the National Book Award for Middle Passage.

Artist-in-residence Akin Babatundé directs the August Wilson play. 

From hip-hop to mass incarceration, James Peterson seeks to spark meaningful discussion about diversity among a wider audience.

Activist Bree Newsome says her decision to take down Confederate flag was ‘deeply personal.’ 

A new book follows the fortunes of freed slaves who returned to Ghana from Brazil

A screening of Newsome's brief film, Wake, will precede her talk.

NEH award will be used to create endowment to expand public humanities initiatives.