Six Faculty Members at Western Kentucky University Participating in African-American Museum Project
The new museum is scheduled to open next summer.
Yale Acquires Archives of an Eighteenth-Century Jamaican Plantation Owner
The documents provide a detailed account of the racial, sexual, and economic aspects of life on a Jamaican plantation.
UConn Receives Collection of Recordings Preserving the Culture of Darfur
Mia Farrow has toured Darfur and made videos of the region's music and dance in order to preserve them for future generations.
The University of Kentucky Merges Africana and African-American Studies
Director Frank Walker hopes to hire new faculty and offer a bachelor's degree in the field.
U.S. Postal Service Honors an African-American Artist
Romane Bearden was an artist and songwriter who died in 1988 at the age of 76.
New Interdisciplinary Journal on Diaspora Studies Founded at Kentucky State University
The journal will be published twice a year. Egbunam Amadife of Kentucky State will serve as managing editor.
