Directed by Yance Ford, the Oscar-nominated documentary Strong Island (2018) examines the 1992 murder of the filmmaker’s brother and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free.

Taking as its starting point an ultimately failed attempt to translate a Sesotho short story into English, Chronology explores the spaces language occupies in relationships, colonial history, and the postcolonial present.

Back in print after more than a decade, A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories is a collection of little-known short stories and narrative poems written by black-writers, journalists, and political activists between the years of 1880 and 1953.

Join us as we kick off our Africa Lecture Series with a lecture by Africana Studies professor David Amponsah titled “Kwame Nkrumah and the Politics of Religion in Early Postcolonial Ghana."

Join us for a book talk with Kehinde Andrews, Associate Professor in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Birmingham City University.

Free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing!!!

Refreshments will be served.

Unapologetically Femme: Queering Black Genders in Beyonce's "Sorry”
by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley

Reading and discussion of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy by Carol Anderson. She will be joined in conversation by Professor Camille Z. Charles.  Event hosted by Errin Haines Whack of the Associated Press.

Hosted by Penn Book Center

Join Penn Professor Daniel Gillion for an interactive discussion of his newest book, Governing with Words: The Political Dialogue on Race, Public Policy, and Inequality in America. Penn alumni are invited to join the discussion live on-campus in Sweeten Alumni House or online.

The Anita Hill and Kimberle Crenshaw event is currently sold out. We are in the process of finding a way to accommodate more people. Additional information will be available by the end of next week.

The Wolf Humanities Center's yearlong program on Stuff kicks off with Kevin Young, award-winning poet, New Yorker editor, author of the bestselling Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts and Fake News, and Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

With the resurgence of fascism and xenophobia in the world, scholars and pundits have declared that democracy is in crisis. However, history reveals that democracies have always existed amidst systems that thrive on inequality.

This symposium will focus on two questions:

Join us for our annual Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Memorial Lecture featuring Maya Wiley and her lecture titled "Race and Sex in the Time of Trump."

Join us for a book talk with Michael Hanchard about his book, "The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy."

Light refreshments will be provided.

Join us for a book talk with Dr. Mary Frances Berry about her book, "History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times."

Light refreshments will be provided.

Doctor of Philosophy in Africana Studies

Dr. Osei Alleyne    |    Dr. Celina Aihsa David De Sa    |    Dr. Josslyn J. Luckett    |    Dr. SaraEllen Strongman

Join Penn Professor Herman Beavers for an interactive discussion of his newly-released poetry chapbook, Obsidian Blues.

Hosted by Department of Africana Studies & Center for Africana

KEYNOTE ADDRESS "IMAGINING THE RACED SPACE OF FREEDOM: SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF THADIOUS M. DAVIS"

Presented by the Departments of Africana Studies and English / Cosponsored by the Wolf Humanities Center and the Provost's Interdisciplinary Arts Fund.

SaraEllen Strongman, PhD Candidate in Africana Studies published an article in the journal, Feminist Theory. The article, which focuses on the work of Audrey Lorde, asks how interracial sex and/or sexual attraction might be an integral part of cross-racial feminist work.

Photo by Peter Tobia

In February 2017, Garry Bertholf, Gr ’13, launched The Martyr’s Shuffle, an experimental magazine that assembles arts and sciences schol

Source photos: Elvert X. Barnes, beyond13th.com, Johnny Silvercloud

Hosted by Department of Africana Studies, Center for Africana Studies, Jewish Studies Program, Penn Black & Jewish Dialogues

Please join us in congratulating the following Africana Studies faculty members and Center for Africana Studies faculty affiliates who received promotions and appointments effective July 1.

Two new students, Sydney Baloue, C'18, and Tatiana Nelson, have joined our graduate program in Africana Studies. Join us welcoming them to our program and to Penn!

When we think of depictions of slavery on screen in 1939, one film most likely to come to mind: David O. Selznick’s epic adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind.

Summers are usually a time for a break from the fast pace of work. Families go on vacation, children are off from school and staff members get to take their well-earned vacations. But not everyone uses the summer months to take their foot off the pedal. 

Barbara D. Savage of the University of Pennsylvania has been chosen as the Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford for the 2018-19 academic year. 

Africa faces tremendous growth in its population, as it is expected to go from 400 million in 2010 to 1.26 billion in 2050.