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Edited and introduced by Johanna Ortner, doctoral student in Afro-American Studies
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
New pubication: Frances Ellen Watkins (Harper)’s Forest Leaves (ca. 1846) as the latest installment of Just Teach One: Early African American Print on Common-Place: The Journal of Early American...

Kevin Harrington ’16 Featured in UMass Magazine for Galactic Discoveries
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
As a UMass student, Kevin Harrington ‘16 double-majored in Astronomy and Psychology & Brain Sciences, but minored in Afro-American Studies. In addition to his ambitious academic work, Kevin’s...

Steven C. Tracey Named Distinguished Professor
Monday, January 9, 2017
Steven C. Tracy is considered the leading authority on the intersection of African-American literature and blues music. He is the author of Langston Hughes and the Blues (plus subsequent editions,...
Chester Davis Scholarship Fund
Friday, October 21, 2016
Please click here to give to the Chester Davis Scholarship Fund.

Forty Years After: Chinua Achebe and Africa in the Global Imagination
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
On February 18, 1975, the great African writer Chinua Achebe presented a Chancellor’s Lecture at the University of Massachusetts, entitled ‘An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness....

Professor Steve Tracy to be Inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is pleased to announce that Steve Tracy of Amherst, MA will be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for...