07/18/2019 - AFRO meet a wealth of new and known faces alike at Illini Fest. We were very pleased to see such interest in our department. The AFRO Department spent Thursday, July 18 at Millennium Park for the...
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04/22/2019 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Poet Claudia Rankine, whose writing addresses issues of racism and racial violence, will visit campus this week to read from her work. The reading is at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the...
09/06/2018 - An exhibit at the University of Illinois Archives documents his official role on campus and his work on behalf of African-American students, as well as his involvement in the community and his family...
08/16/2018 - Starting in the 2018-2019 academic year, Meyers will be an assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies. His current book manuscript project, Play it Again: The Enduring...
02/17/2017 - The Department of African American Studies will be sponsoring a "Freedom Forum" discussion on the topic of "Toward Black Liberation in the Era of Trump."
01/19/2017 - Dr. Ruby Mendenhall and Dr. Malaika McKee were recently interviewed by Scientific Computing to discuss their exciting research project
09/19/2016 - Professor Eric McDuffie recently spoke with LAS News to discuss his research on Garveyism, the family of Malcolm X, and the importance of black women in the struggle for civil rights.
01/14/2015 - Just say the name “Selma,” and anyone who knows the history of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s will know what you mean. It was on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in that Alabama city almost...
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