Studies
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 […]
Books and literature of poet Langston Hughes are seen at the African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey in Newtonville, N.J. If right-wing book banners have their way, many of these titles will be unavailable to young people across the country. | Charles J. Olson / The Daily Journal A little over a year […]
Maurice Cowley teaches AP AfAm at McDaniel High School, in Portland, Ore. At the start of the school year, he asks his students what they already know. Their answer? Enslavement and civil rights. Or, in other words, Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King Jr. Maurice Cowley Credit: Mark Graves/The Oregonian That was Kimora Worthey’s experience, […]
Photo Submitted Ani-ya Beasley Ani-ya Beasley, a senior majoring in African and African American studies and history, has been awarded a Curtis H. Sykes Memorial Grant of $4,000 from the Black History Commission of Arkansas. Beasley competed alongside professional researchers and large community organizations to win this grant, her first, […]
When I ducked out of my 8 a.m. class at Morrison Hall because of a scratchy throat, I visited the first floor kitchenette and encountered a bulletin board with the photos of the recent concentrators in the African American Studies (AAS) department. Amid the collage of portraits, I was surprised to see how few non-Black […]
The contributions Black people and people of African descent have made to this country are paramount and omnipresent. To consider yourself educated on American history is to consider yourself knowledgeable on Black history; the goal The College Board aims for, but is sorely falling short of. Let’s be clear–the organization is falling short because of […]
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, […]
The Africana and African American studies minor (AFAM) encompasses multidisciplinary, comparative and global research with and about peoples and cultures of Africa and its Diasporas. Diaspora is defined by dispersals and mobilities of communities, the result of exploration, migration and or coercion. African Diaspora communities exist everywhere, from Europe, the Middle East and Asia, to […]
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 […]
The event “Rhythms of Resilience: Philly School Alumni on Hip-Hop, Africana Studies, and Self-Discovery” was held virtually for teachers across the district to attend and ask questions via Zoom. African American studies teacher Ismael Jimenez hosted the panel that included former students and current hip-hop artists Starr Skii and MTM Flow. Both attended Kensington Creative […]