Africana Studies Senior Awards Ceremony
Monday, May 16, 2016 Brooks Rogers Auditorium 4:00pm-6:00pm Please join us as we honor our Class of 2016 Concentrators – refreshments will be served!… Continue reading »
Monday, May 16, 2016 Brooks Rogers Auditorium 4:00pm-6:00pm Please join us as we honor our Class of 2016 Concentrators – refreshments will be served!… Continue reading »
Tuesday, April 26 | 4:00 PM | Griffin Hall, Room 6 Wednesday, April 27 | 4:00 PM | Griffin Hall, Room 6 Join us in support of our senior concentrators as they present and discuss their honors theses. Continue reading »
NO! The Rape Documentary is a Ford Foundation-funded, award-winning, internationally acclaimed film that addresses the international atrocity of heterosexual rape and other forms of sexual violence through the experiences of Black people in the United States. NO! also examines how rape is used as a weapon of homophobia. Continue reading »
Sevonna Brown ’15; Ahmad Greene-Hayes ’16; and Aishah Simmons, 2015–2016 Sterling Brown Visiting Professor of Africana Studies, have been honored by The Just Beginnings Collaborative with a two-year individual or organizational fellowship, in support of their work to end child sexual abuse. The Just Beginnings Collaborative grew out of a… Continue reading »
Rashida K. Braggs, assistant professor of Africana Studies, has received a grant from the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) to continue her research on jazz. Braggs received the grant for her new research titled In the Shadow of Josephine: Migrating Jazz Women Negotiate Racial and National Identity.The… Continue reading »
Neil Roberts, chair of religion and associate professor of Africana studies at Williams College, has been elected president of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA). He will begin his term in January 2017. The CPA is an international organization of scholars, artists, and community activists dedicated to articulating a… Continue reading »
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, the 2015–2016 Sterling Brown Visiting Professor of Africana Studies, is an award-winning African-American feminist lesbian independent documentary filmmaker, television and radio producer, published writer, international lecturer, associate editor of The Feminist Wire and activist based in Philadelphia, PA. She is currently an… Continue reading »
Africana Studies mourns the loss of Morlene Magoronga. A 2014 graduate of Williams, Morlene was a Psychology major and an Africana Studies concentrator. At the time of her death, Morlene was a fellow at Bridge International Academies in Boston, MA, where… Continue reading »
Africana Studies presents a rockumentary and panel discussion about band whose music was impossibly ahead of its time. Sunday, November 23 | 7:00 PM | Paresky Auditorium … Continue reading »
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