Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor '11, '13 has been named a 2021 MacArthur Fellow. These fellowships are awarded to individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. Taylor is a historian and writer who...
In March of 2020, the City of Evanston became the first U.S. municipality to agree to pay Black residents reparations. Black residents can receive up to $25,000 if they were affected by discriminatory housing policies and practices, which the city...
Three doctoral students in Weinberg have been awarded the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2021-2022. The recipients of this prestigious award are Ashley Dennis, Andrea Rosengarten, and Azadeh Safaeian. This fellowship supports a year of research and writing to help advanced...
Rikki Byrd, a third-year graduate student in the Department of African American Studies and a 2020-2021 Block Museum of Art Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow, combined her passion for art and academia in her exhibition, "Behold, Be Held." This exhibition is the Block...
Sherwin K. Bryant, professor in the Departments of African American Studies and History, has been awarded a Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society fellowship for 2021-2022. Bryant's project is titled "Just across the river: Black histories of Brunswick County." "The project will embed me...
Professor kihana miraya ross, of the Department of African American Studies, has been awarded the Spencer Foundation Large Grant for her research project, "Wrestling with reparations: A historical and ethnographic study of a Black community's struggle for educational justice." The City...
Calvin L. Holmes graduated in 1986 with a major in African American Studies and a minor in Urban Studies. Today Holmes serves as the President of the Chicago Community Loan Fund (CCLF). Holmes also serves advisory councils and boards across...
Mary Pattillo, the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and chair of the Department of African American Studies, will be inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS). Pattillo is one of five distinguished scholars that...
Aldon Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies and president of the American Sociological Association, explains how social justice movements succeed in the Scientific American article "From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter." Read the full article by...
Professor Nitasha Sharma is known for her work in researching and comparing different societies and cultures. On this episode of Global Lunchbox Podcast, Sharma discusses these distinctions and their importance on the theme of "Conducting Comparative Race Studies: Black Studies,...
