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Shani Mott, a scholar of Black studies at Johns Hopkins University whose examinations of race and power in America extended beyond the classroom to her employer, her city and even her own home, has died in Baltimore. She was 47. She died of adrenal cancer on March 12, said her husband, Nathan Connolly, a professor […]
Clyde Taylor, a scholar who in the 1970s and ’80s played a leading role in identifying, defining and elevating Black cinema as an art form, died on Jan. 24 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 92. His daughter, Rahdi Taylor, a filmmaker, said the cause was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. As a young […]
This article was originally published in UCSB’s ‘The Current‘. The controversy around the College Board’s A.P. African-American Studies Course, which was targeted by Republican politicians in Florida seeking to restrict its contents, resulted in a version that made optional several key concepts and areas that were initially part of the core curriculum, including critical race theory, […]
Ingrid Banks The controversy around the College Board’s AP African-American Studies Course, which was targeted by Republican politicians in Florida seeking to restrict its contents, resulted in a version that made optional several key concepts and areas that were initially part of the core curriculum, including critical race theory, structural racism, intersectionality, Black queer theory and […]
Northwestern University student Nia Robles Del Pino has been named a 2024 Global Rhodes Scholar — one of only two students selected worldwide among candidates from any country outside an existing Rhodes jurisdiction or competition zone. Robles Del Pino is Northwestern’s 20th Rhodes Scholar and the University’s first student to win the Rhodes Global Scholarship. […]
By Merilee Grindle Author, In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations On a bright day early in 1885, Zelia Nuttall was strolling around the ancient ruins of Teotihuacán, the enormous ceremonial site north of Mexico City. Not yet 30, Zelia had a deep interest in the history of Mexico, […]
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Mamphela Ramphele, a world-renowned activist, medical doctor, academic and political thinker, will visit Penn State Oct. 9-11 for a series of discussions, class engagements and talks focused on her work advocating for social justice, human rights and building global community. Ramphele co-founded of the Black Consciousness Movement with South African apartheid […]
Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images The Chinese flag flies over a mosque in Kashgar, Xinjiang in 2019. CNN — The United States has condemned China’s reported sentencing of prominent Uyghur academic Rahile Dawut to life in prison, calling for the immediate release of the scholar known for documenting folklore . . .
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein still remembers how appalled her father was when she pointed to a stream of light spanning the sky and inquired, “What is that?” “My dad just looked at me like, ‘What … is wrong with you?’” Prescod-Weinstein recalled with a laugh. “That’s the Milky Way,” he told her. Neither one of them knew […]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Aug. 3, 2023) – For over 70 years, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program has been a notable study-abroad exchange initiative that attracts college and university faculty, administrators, students, researchers, artists, and professionals from various countries. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright Program promotes mutual understanding between the United States […]