Toni Morrison to receive the UCLA Medal
Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison is scheduled to be awarded the UCLA Medal, the campus’s highest honor. The medal will be presented by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block […]
Robin Kelley wins 2015 Angela Y. Davis Award for Public Scholarship by the American Studies Association
The American Studies Association has just announced that Robin Kelley is the recipient of the 2015 Angela Y. Davis Award for Public Scholarship. The award recognizes scholars who have applied […]
Lessons from 20th Century Alabama’s Black Communists for Black Lives Matter by Robin D.G. Kelley
On the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking history, Hammer and Hoe, author Robin D.G. Kelley discusses the lessons Alabama’s forgotten black communists can offer today’s activists. Lessons from 20th Century […]
The Myth of Post-Racialism in Television News
The Myth of Post-Racialism in Television News will be released in September 2015. Click here to learn more about Libby Lewis’s new book.
Between Pain and Despair: What Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Missing
Professor Melvin Rogers delivers a short review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Review in The Atlantic. The full review can be read here.
Professor Jemima Pierre Delivers Pan-Africanism, Decolonization, and the Black Radical Tradition, Closing Keynote at the 6th European Conference of African Studies
The conference will be held in Sorbonne, Paris. More information on the conference and keynote speakers can be found here.
Robin Kelley Delivers Toni Morrison Lectures at Princeton University
The lectures can be can be viewed through the following links. Lecture 1 – Lecture 2 – Lecture 3
Professor Brenda Stevenson selected as 2015 Guggenheim Fellow
Congratulations to Professor Brenda Stevenson who was selected as 2015 Guggenheim Fellow. Read the full article here.
Melvin L. Rogers Publishes A New Article In Political Theory
The article is titled “David Walker and the Political Power of the Appeal.”
Jemima Pierre’s Publishes Article “L’Afrique et la question de la blackness: exemples du Ghana”
The article is published in the latest issue of Politique Africaine. More info on the issue here.
