Center for Africana Studies programs reflect our commitment to meaningful scholarship for the academy and the public—scholarship that has an impact on national, cultural, policy, and scholarly discourses.
Courtney Morris - "To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua"
Latinx Lecture Series
Courtney Morris
Join us as we listen to professor and visual artist, Courtney Morris, examine how black women activists have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial…
Race & Sports
“The Future of Equity & Opportunity in Sports” with Bomani Jones
Special Lecture in African Studies
with His Excellency Prof. Yemi Osinbajo SAN GCON, Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Join us for the Special Lecture in African Studies with His Excellency Prof. Yemi Osinbajo SAN GCON, Vice President of the…
Brave Testimony: A Celebration of Poetry of the African Diaspora
A Reading By Tyehimba Jess
Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry, Leadbelly and Olio. Olio won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-…