The Africana Media Project is a digital archive of still images and video related to the global black experience.

Directed by Professor Michael Hanchard, the Marginalized Populations project is a collaborative research initiative designed to explore political dynamics between populations with unequal, minimal or non-existent state protections and national governments.

Poet and Scholar Dr. Joshua Bennett reads from his debut full-length collection of poems, The Sobbing School available now for pre-order. Joshua Bennett, Class of 2010, studied English and Africana Studies during his time at Penn.

Though voting rights are fundamental to American democracy, felon disfranchisement, voter identification laws, and hard-to-access polling locations with limited hours are a few of the ways voter turnout is suppressed.

Rogers Smith is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, chair of the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism and associate dean for social sciences in Penn’sSchool of Arts and Sciences.

In her recently published paper, "The Digital Hood: Social Media use among youth in disadvantaged neighborhoods," Robin Stevens, discussed how endless social media posts about violence and harrassment amplifies a neighborhood's danger for teens.

"If you can't give away $70 million, then I'm not going to try to," said North Carolina State Sen.

Meet Imani Davis, a high school student who used poetry to turn her anxiety into strength. Join her as she explores the process that’s shaping the way she shares her truth in this spotlight video. The video can be watched here.

Beavers and members of the West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance were honored for their partnership built around “August Wilson and Beyond,” an academically based community service course. The winners received a $5,000 award.

The Center for Africana Studies Summer Institute for Pre-Freshmen is one of Penn’s premier pre-freshmen programs. This intensive one-week course of study is taught by standing Penn faculty and exposes students to major intellectual and cultural themes and currents in 19th, 20th, and 21st century African and African Diaspora studies.