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Experiencing Cuba 2024
Professors Michael Birembaum Quintero and Ana María Reyes led the course CAS AA306E/CFA MH563 – Experiencing Cuba: History, Culture and Politics,” during the 2024 Spring Break. The course was sponsored...
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Dr. Louis Chude-Sokei featured in ‘The New York Review’ Article
Louis Chude-Sokei; illustration by Lorenzo Gritti Dr. Louis Chude-Sokei, director of The African American and Black Diaspora Studies Program and Professor of English, was recently featured in an...
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Saida Grundy wins 2024 Race, Gender, and Class Book Award
Saida Grundy’s book Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man (University of California Press, 2022) recently won the ASA’s 2024 Race, Gender, and Class Distinguished Contribution...
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Upcoming Afro-Cuban Music Workshop and festival rehearsal led by Sandy Perez
The next Afro-Cuban music workshop will be held Saturday June 8th (details below). Among other things we will be rehearsing to perform a comparsa at the Lynn Music Festival on June 22nd at 5:20pm. The...
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Announcement from Danielle DeCourcey, the marketing and communications assistant director at BU’s Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground. If you’re not familiar with the HTC, our mission is to create...
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AFAM Studies 2024 Convocation
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Dr. Koritha Mitchell featured in Time Magazine
Koritha Mitchell, Professor of English and African American Literature recently published an article in TIME. “I’ve been encouraged to see affinity groups organize in support of the Harris campaign,...
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Dr. Louis Chude-Sokei has been invited to participate in the 15th Annual...
Our very own Dr. Louis Chude-Sokei has been invited to participate in the 15th Annual Gwangju Biennale, the largest art event in Asia. This year's event is entitled Pansori: A Soundscape of the 21st...
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Upcoming Afro-Cuban Music Workshop led by Sandy Pérez
The Saturday Afro-Cuban music workshops with Maestro Sandy Pérez will be continuing in the fall. He will hold intermediate and beginner workshops on September 7th and October 19th, at our usual...
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Ron Richardson Book Launch
This Thursday, October 3rd, the History Department and the African American and Black Diaspora Studies program are co-sponsoring a book launch forum for Professor Ron Richardson. This will be a...
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