04/28/2022 - Dr. Desirée McMillion had the privilege of hosting Dr. Robyn Collymore, University of Illinois (Class of 1982) African American Studies major, in her AFRO 226 Black Women in Contemporary US Society...
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04/07/2022 - Dr. Doris Derby was well-known for her role as an activist in the Civil Rights movement, especially in Mississippi, and as a photographer and artist who captured and conveyed the soul of the movement...
04/05/2022 - Dr. Bobby J. Smith II has been invited to give an in-person talk on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 1:00pm as part of the inaugural Planning Colloquium in the UIUC Department of Urban and Regional...
03/21/2022 - Everyone is invited to the upcoming Staged Reading of Xtigone by Nambi E. Kelley, an African-American playwright. Directed by Charence O'Higgins (MFA Theatre UIUC) and Paul O'Mahony (...
03/07/2022 - Professor Irvin J. Hunt will be presenting on Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement on Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at the Caxton Club in Chicago Illinois. In-...
03/02/2022 - Dr. Bobby J Smith II was invited to give a talk on April 14, 2022 at 6:00pm as part of the inaugural UIUC Metropolitan Food and Environmental Systems Student Association’s (MFSTSA) Talk Series:...
03/02/2022 - On Friday, March 4 at 3:00, The Center for African Studies is sponsoring, "Africa, Race and the War in Ukraine: An Open Discussion". This will be on Zoom and there will be an opportunity for people...
03/01/2022 - Professor Esther Ngumbi, Assistant Professor of Entomology and African American Studies, has informed us of a recent publication milestone. She shared the early manuscript of a recently accepted...
02/25/2022 - Dr. Harrison will be the Keynote Speaker at the 13th Annual Graduate Student Conference where she will present "Education as a Practice for Freedom". The theme of the conference is "Education in...
02/22/2022 - Members of the African American Studies Department attended the LAS New Faculty and Newly Promoted Faculty Reception in the Fall of 2021. Pictured left to right: AFRO Head Ronald Bailey, LAS Dean...
02/15/2022 - Faye V. Harrison has been named the 2022 recipient of the Society for Applied Anthropology’s Malinowski Award and will deliver the Malinowski Address at the Awards Ceremony on Friday, March 25 in...
05/02/2021 - For Land and Liberty is a comparative study of the history and contemporary circumstances concerning Brazil’s quilombos (African-descent rural communities) and their inhabitants,...
04/14/2021 - Dr. Bobby Smith II has received the 2021 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. Read the full article here. Please...
03/19/2021 - The Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign stands in solidarity with educators, students, and community members nationwide in denouncing the...
02/10/2021 - Full article: https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1471956550
