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Congratulations Brenda Stevenson: the recipient of the John W. Blassingame Award from the Southern Historical Association
We are delighted to report that Brenda Stevenson is the recipient…

Toni Morrison to receive the UCLA Medal
Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison is scheduled…

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…

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…

The Myth of Post-Racialism in Television News
The Myth of Post-Racialism in Television News will be released…

Between Pain and Despair: What Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Missing
Professor Melvin Rogers delivers a short review…

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…

Robin Kelley Delivers Toni Morrison Lectures at Princeton University
The lectures can be can be viewed through the following links.
Lecture…

Professor Brenda Stevenson selected as 2015 Guggenheim Fellow
Congratulations to Professor Brenda Stevenson who was selected…

Melvin L. Rogers Publishes A New Article In Political Theory
The article is titled "David Walker and the Political Power…

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.…
