Venise Berry shares a few viewpoints on the importance of African American and women, gender and sexuality studies.

African American musicians were trailblazers in promoting a culture that was less prejudiced and discriminatory.

In the middle of January the UI Office of Strategic Communications put out a news release that the University of Iowa would ...

Christopher M. Tinson will serve as the new director of the African American Studies Program at Saint Louis University. “While he will come in as a tenured associate professor in the Department of ...

The Spingarn Medal is the highest honor awarded by the NAACP. Established in 1914 by Joel Elias Spingarn, it is a gold medal presented annually to an African American for “the highest or noblest ...

Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...

Troubling the pages of historians : African American intellectuals and historical writing in the early republic, 1817-1837 -- To present a just view of our origin : creating an African American ...

Prologue -- Of people and politics, 1908-1932. Remembrance ; Turning the picture of Lincoln to the wall -- Called to Washington, 1933-1935. Will the New Deal be a fair deal? ; A Black cabinet ; ...