Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora (NYU Press, 2013) Shana Redmond is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She holds a PhD from Yale University and has published widely on black music and politics. *co-sponsored with the Bunche Center.

We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement (NYU Press, 2013) Akinyele Umoja is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African-American Studies, Georgia State University.  A long-time activist and historian of the black freedom movement, Dr. Umoja holds a PhD from Emory University.

Donna Murch, a Bunche Center Visiting Scholar, is associate professor of history at Rutgers University and co-director of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis and the Black Atlantic. Her teaching and research specializations are postwar U.S. history, modern African American history, and twentieth-century urban studies. Her talk will center around the research for her upcoming […]

Peniel E. Joseph is Professor of History at Tufts University and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy.  He is the the author of the award-winning Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America and Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama […]

Professor Ford will reflect on  the current crisis of education by revisiting 1930s Black radical thinkers, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Katherine Dunham and Langston Hughes.  Drawing on Du Bois's classic Black Reconstruction, he argues that  the dark proletariat’s underground pursuit of education begins reconstructing mainstream educational institutions. Likewise, a Langston Hughes poem, "New Day," identifies […]

Williamson is an Assistant Professor of African American Literature and Cultural Studies at Michigan State University.  Her research interests include critical black cultural studies and critical race theory, black feminist theory, femicide and gendered violence, legal constructions of deviance and outlawry. She is currently working on a manuscript culled from her dissertation project entitled Scandalize […]