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King’s historic visit on Nov. 13, 1960, and a second, on April 14, 1961, came during a period when he was honing ideas that would take center stage at the March on Washington in 1963
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This semester’s work also featured an end-of-semester mini-field course for local children and youth presented by two Cornell students.
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Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation will help make humanities research more accessible to scholars and the public.
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Kamala Ibrahim Ishag has forged a unique and expansive practice that is not defined by a singular style or movement.
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Extending her research on writing by Black women around the world, Carole Boyce Davies examines the stories of Black women political leaders in Africa and in the global African Diaspora.
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Her talk is one of three in the African Diaspora Knowledge Exchange Series.
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Derrick Spires, Edward Baptist, and Gerard Aching help tell the story of the man born into slavery who became an advocate for African American freedom.
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This year, 15 new faculty are bringing innovative ideas in a wide range of topics to the College of Arts & Sciences’ nexus of discovery and impact, including climate change, astronomy, identity studies and the economy.
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Michell Chresfield, Africana Studies
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"Taiwo thinks that we must recognize that the accumulated thought of humankind is part of our shared heritage."
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Klarman Fellows pursue research in any discipline in the College, including natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and the creative arts as well as cross-disciplinary fields. The application deadline is October 14.
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James Turner, the founding director of Cornell’s Africana Studies and Research Center and a pioneer of the multidisciplinary approach to exploring the African diaspora, died Aug. 6 in Ithaca.
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In an extended essay, Grant Farred focuses on actor-turned-wartime president, examining the intersection of pop culture and politics.
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See the full list and vote for your top thinker
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Three dozen elementary, middle, and high school teachers from across central New York traveled to Cornell’s Ithaca campus on June 28 for this year’s International Summer Studies Institute (ISSI), hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
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This year’s Academic Venture Fund (AVF) seed grants for research support equitable and sustainable development, offshore wind energy, and improved indoor air quality.
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The holiday reminds professor Riché Richardson of exciting celebrations of her youth, but also of obstacles that stand in the way of fully achieving Black freedom.
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A&S faculty will lead many courses on campus and join educational vacations as part of Cornell Adult University.
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"Eight years ago this spring, unelected bureaucrats in Flint, Mich., switched the city’s municipal water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River. The sting of the decision persists to this day."
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Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge, part of Global Cornell, has awarded grants totaling more than $500,000 to support faculty research addressing wide-ranging questions around domestic and global migration.
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A number of special events are planned in the College of Arts & Sciences to celebrate Reunion 2022.
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On 5/27 and 5/28, Kristen Wright's one act play A PURSUIT will be performed in person at The Cherry Arts in Ithaca at 7:30 pm on both nights. If you will be in the Ithaca area at that time, please come out!
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Seed grants, student travel grants and internships totaling $355,000 in the 2021–22 academic year supported international work done by many A&S faculty and students.
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The attitude of African states to the Ukraine war is ambivalent. Political scientist Siba Grovogui explains why this is the case and why he also blames the West.
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In the early 1900s, Cornell was one of a few major universities that welcomed Black students, but social segregation of the time prohibited them from living in campus housing.
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Aliou Gresseau-Gambrel is an Africana Studies & College Scholar major.
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"On April 25, 2014, water from the Flint River began flowing into the pipes of Flint, Michigan. The date marks the start of the Flint water crisis. "
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Halle Livermore says there are infinite pathways you can take to decide on your major.
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Catch Black Voices on the Hill each Friday @2pm on WVBR 93.5 FM.
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Despite Sudan once being at the forefront of African cinema, only eight feature films have been made in the last 70 years.
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The role of artists in rewriting history and shaping economic development came to the fore at a recent ‘Global Ghana’ gathering organized by the Africa Institute in Sharjah, a city in the UAE.
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During March 29 testimon, Jamila Michener told the Committee on Oversight and Reforms that health care for marginalized communities would allow them to participate more in politics.
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The 3-D tour focuses on the building, its foundation, the archaeological excavation underway and a Civil War monument on the church site.
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Delve into Cornell University's 'Beyonce Nation: The Remix Course.
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Poetry can often help people make sense of the world in difficult times. For World Poetry Day, The Conversation U.S. has gathered four articles on the power of poetry.
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‘Where we were right before the pandemic is not necessarily the goal’
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On Cornell’s eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.
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Stacy Brown addresses a panel of scholars, including Professor Riché Richardson, with the question "Being Black vs Africana American?""We are live at The Players Championship in Florida on Thursday, March 9 2022. Smokey Robinson’s poem “A Black American” sparked a widespread discussion about racial identity following its original performance...
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On March 22 co-founder and former leader of the Israeli Black Panthers will give a talk, "Darkness in the Holy Land: The Israeli Black Panthers’ Struggle for Human Rights and Against Racism."
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"When I DJ it is my role to attend to sound as much as to silence, because silence structures sound. Silence structures us. Sound forms a philosophy of relation for me, a way of living and orienting myself receptively in space. We are immersed in soundwaves that form an ocean in which we attune our spatial awareness to the vibrations of energy....
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"In honor of Black History Month, black educators in the United States and across the world continue to inspire and leave great impacts on future generations. One such educator is Cornell University professor of African American Literature Riché Richardson, who joined the Africana Studies and Research Center in 2008.Riché’s research primarily...
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Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
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About CO+POS: Housed within the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies (CO+POS) highlights the latest in innovative research about Southwest Asia, North Africa, and Southeast Europe—a region encompassing the Turkic world, the Ottoman Empire, and its successor nation-states....
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"Emblazoned on the Marx bust in Highgate Cemetery, London, are these words: 'The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point however is to change it.' In “Between Home and Street: Andaiye’s Revolutionary Vision,” one of the three forewords to this amazing and timely collection of writings by Caribbean left feminist...
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The Cornell Center for Social Sciences grant program, which supports social science research by Cornell faculty members, has awarded $85,000 to 10 professors for their 2022-23 CCSS Faculty Fellows program.
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The Cornell Center for Cultural Humility provides a new resource to understand and help break down barriers between people.
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"Looking back, the initial spread of COVID-19 in early 2020 illustrates that clinicians, epidemiologists and behavioral scientists around the world greatly underestimated the scope and intensity of resistance to mitigation measures that would follow. Many in the medical community have remained wedded to the view that direct observation of the...
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Working on the B-side of time, this essay considers the way Afro-futurism often configures time as nonlinear and entangled. In doing so, it looks at contemporary apocalyptic forms of storytelling, Watchmen, Parasite, Black Mother, Exit West, and On Such a Full Sea. The way the timeline of racial capitalism is represented in each reveals how...
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"Cultural appropriation is nothing new. For years prominent White people have been accused of borrowing the fashions, music, and art forms of various cultural groups and popularizing them as their own. The music industry has been particularly hard hit by this practice. We talk to: Dr. Riché Richardson, Professor Africana Studies Cornell University...
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