The Alumnae of Northwestern University recently awarded 2023-2024 Academic Enrichment Grant funding to three Weinberg College faculty members. They include: $6,784 -- “New Black Music in Chicago: A Series of Artist Panels, Masterclasses and Performance,” proposed by Nitasha Sharma, assistant professor of...
Northwestern University’s department of African American Studies will officially change its name to the department of Black Studies. The department hopes the new name better reflects the breadth of its scholarship and teaching, which encompasses the interdisciplinary study of the formations...
In August of 1963, the streets of Washington, DC were filled with the voices of thousands of people fighting for justice and equality. Kathleen Bethel ’89 MA, then just 10 years old, understood that attending the March on Washington would...
Quilting is much more than just a needle and thread. It is an integral part of American history, with individual quilts serving as historical documents that tell a story of the past. Quilting has played a significant role in the...
Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and chair of the Department of African American Studies, has been listed as one of Better magazine’s 2023 Top 10 of Chicago’s Black Women of Impact. The list celebrates women who “have risen to...
Quilting has played a significant role in the history of Black American folk art and American folk art as a whole. Tracy L. Vaughn-Manley, Betty Joy Bonds of Chicago, and Melissa Blount of Evanston, known as "sister quilters," have used...
Mary Pattillo, the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and chair of the Department of African American Studies, will be awarded the Commitment to Justice Award by the Collaboration for Justice of Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts and the Chicago...
Meet Assistant Professor KB Dennis Meade of the Department of Religious Studies, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of African American Studies. Learn what inspires her research and what she finds most fulfilling about teaching. Where are you from? Where did...
During the week of July 25, 28 members of Northwestern’s faculty convened in Evanston’s Hardin Hall for the first ever Summer Writing Retreat, a program focused on creating dedicated time for professors to catch up on work left incomplete due...
The decorated African American Studies scholar and Weinberg College alum returns to Northwestern looking to blend scholarship and social activism Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, one of the nation’s premier voices on race and politics, Black social movements and social activism, is joining the...
