Black Studies

Penn State Splits African and African American Studies

The Department of African and African American Studies will be split into two separately budgeted academic entities.

Emory University Video Series Highlights Lesser Known Events in Civil Rights History

A series of videos entitled "The Hidden History of the Quest for Civil Rights," offers history lessons on lesser known events of the civil rights struggle.

Toni Morrison Society Sets Up Shop at Oberlin College

The international literary society founded in 1993 and dedicated to scholarly research on the works of the Nobel laureate, will now be housed at Oberlin College in Ohio.

Stony Brook University Offers New Master’s Degree Program in Africana Studies

This fall the university will offer for the first time a master's degree program in Africana studies.

New Center on Race and Democracy Debuts at Tufts University

The founding director of the new center at Tufts is Peniel E. Joseph, a professor of history at the university.

University of Arkansas Little Rock to Debut a New Academic Program on Race and Ethnicity

Students in the new minor degree program scheduled to begin this fall will take two required courses and six electives.

Three Finalists for Post at the Center for Black Culture & Research at West Virginia University

The three finalists vying for assistant director of the center are James Jackson, Curtis Proctor, and Maurice Gipson.

Martin Puryear to Design Slavery Memorial at Brown University

The project will recognize the historic ties of Brown University's founders to the slave trade. The memorial will be located near the site of the university's earliest buildings, some of which were built with the help of slave labor.

University of Virginia Unveils New Digitized Oral History Project of the Civil Rights Era

The recorded interviews of scores of attorneys and scholars who were active in the civil rights movement were conducted in the 1980s and are now available online.

How Do Black Men Succeed in College?

Black men who were successful in college tended to have families who were committed to higher education and had a mentor during their K-12 years.

Brown University Student Discovers a Lost Speech of Malcolm X

An audiotape of the 1961 speech that no one had heard for 50 years was found in the university's archives.

Northwestern University to Host a Summit of Black Studies Doctoral Programs

The three-day conference will be held in April and will be highlighted by a keynote address from poet and Yale University scholar Elizabeth Alexander.

Multimedia Exhibit Examines the Journeys of African American Women in Higher Education

Roxana Walker-Canton's work will be on display for two weeks in February on the campus of Fairfield University in Connecticut.

Pioneering Black Chemists in Ohio

Sabrina N. Collins, an assistant professor of chemistry at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, has published an informative study on some of the earliest African American chemists in Ohio.

University of Miami to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Its Racial Desegregation

Today, the University of Miami has one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation.

Temple University’s New Website Documents the Civil Rights Struggle in Philadelphia

The website devotes much of its attention to the desegregation of Girard College in Philadelphia and the Columbia Avenue riots of 1964.

Nation’s Oldest Black Fraternity Honors Its “Mother”

Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity placed a new headstone of the grave of the woman who nurtured the organization's seven founders.

Oral Histories of the Jim Crow South Now Available Online

Duke University Libraries offers 100 taped interviews conducted between 1993 and 1995 of African Americans who lived through the Jim Crow era.

The Papers of Artist John Biggers Have Been Donated to Emory University

Muralist John Biggers founded the art department at Texas Southern University.

Black Students at Tufts Mount a Campus Protest Calling for an Africana Studies Major

About 60 students participated in a protest on the Tufts campus that produced some positive results.
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