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Mourning the Loss of Professor John H. Bracey, Jr.
We are sad to share the news that a pillar of our department and community, Professor John H. Bracey, Jr., recently joined the ancestors. Our community is shaken by this tremendous loss.

Professor Traci Parker on C-SPAN
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Professor Parker's interview featuring Dr. Esther Terry on the 1960 Lunch Counter Sit-Ins.
See the full video here: https://www.c-span.org/video/?473193-1/1960-lunch-counter-sit-ins

Dr. Crystal Webster's Essay in The American Historian
Monday, June 15, 2020
"The History of Black Girls and the Field of Black Girlhood Studies: At the Forefront of Academic Scholarship" ...

Dr. Nneka Dennie's Recent Article
Monday, June 15, 2020
"Black Male Feminism and the Evolution of Du Boisian Thought, 1903-1920" in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International....

Honoring and Celebrating the life of Dr. Frederick Tillis
Friday, May 15, 2020
See the Program of Services on May 8, 2020 here....

Dr. Crystal Donkor Receives 2020 Career Enhancement Fellowship
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Foundation Recognize Exceptional Faculty with 2020 Career Enhancement Fellowships...

Kymberly S. Newberry, "A Pretty Black Girl," looks at “The Architect”
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Kymberly S. Newberry is a PhD student in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies. She is the founder of “Siggi Dimanche,” an annual event which celebrates the 31 French speaking...