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Spotlight Scholar: Professor James Smethurst

Friday, October 16, 2020

Black Arts Matter...
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'You Need to Leave Now, Ma'am' by Dr. Carlyn Ferrari

Thursday, September 24, 2020

See the full article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (9/8/20)....
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Chester Davis Scholarship for AfroAm Majors

Monday, September 21, 2020

AfroAm majors are encouraged to apply for the Chester Davis Scholarship, a scholarship fund for undergraduate students established in honor of Professor Chester Davis, an early faculty member in...
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Samba Soul & Civil Rights

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Maya Cunningham's radio show Music In Culture: Sounds of the Black Experience was featured on a special broadcast in connection with the March On Washington on Fri. Aug 28th, 3-7 pm on WPFW 89.3 FM...

RBS-Mellon SoFCB Junior Fellows for 2020-22

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Dr. Crystal Donkor and Dr. Jacinta Saffold have been selected as Junior Fellows of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) at Rare Book School, out of a highly...
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Professor Smethurst's Book Release

Monday, July 20, 2020

Brick City Vanguard: Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity (African American Intellectual History), by James Smethurst (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020)...