Amilcar Shabazz, professor of history and Africana Studies, was selected to receive the 2024 Distinguished Community Engagement Award from the Office of the Provost.
This award—which includes a $2,500 monetary prize and a plaque of recognition—recognizes a faculty member or librarian for a record of community-engaged service that demonstrates engagement and impact in the community and benefit to UMass Amherst.
This recognition follows Shabazz's 2023 Ruth B. Loving Civil Rights Award, which honored his life scholarship and activism championing historical truth telling and Black reparations in Massachusetts, across the U.S. and the world.
See the full article by the College of Humanities and Fine Arts.