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2021 MLK Lecture in Social Justice

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2020 Higginbotham Lecture

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Quick Chat with Jasmine Johnson

We caught up with Professor Jasmine Johnson, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Penn, who joined the department in 2019.
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Quick Chat with Barbara D. Savage

We caught up with Professor Barbara D. Savage, the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought.
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Programs on Africa

The Programs on Africa at the Center for Africana Studies provides members of the University of Pennsylvania, local, national, and international communities with information on faculty, researchers, activities, and programming on historical and contemporary Africa.

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2021 MLK Lecture in Social Justice

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COVID-19 and women in the workforce

March 18, 2021
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Quick Chatwith Akira D. Rodriguez

March 1, 2021
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Herman Beavers Named Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt President’s Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies

March 1, 2021
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Niko Simpkins: At the Nexus of Engineering and Music

February 11, 2021
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Before you hail American democracy, consider its roots

February 2, 2021
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The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation’s Fall 2020 Student Grants

January 28, 2021
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The Composer Tyshawn Sorey Enters a New Phase

January 11, 2021
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Leading Penn’s faith effort in a pandemic

December 1, 2020
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Crisis Upon Crisis

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Immediate impact

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