Events

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 […]