Brianna Barrett: 'Stay true to your most authentic self'

Brianna Barrett

Government & Africana Studies

Morristown, NJ

Who or what influenced your Cornell education the most? How or why?

Three Generations of Apartheid Schooling

Noliwe Rooks is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work explores how race and gender both impact and are impacted by civic culture, social history and political life in the United States. She is the author of four books, the most recent of which is Cutting School: Privitization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education (New Press, 2017). Rooks...

Mukoma explores African literacy tradition in new book

The book restores a missing foundational period to the African literary tradition.

Courtney Carr: 'I value the flexibility in a liberal arts education'

Courtney Carr

Africana Studies

Queens, NY

What is your main extracurricular activity--why is it important to you?

In The Age Of #MeToo, Spinning Hip-Hop In Favor Of Women

...Race also plays a factor in how women in rap are perceived, according to Oneka LaBennett, who teaches a class about the sexual politics of women in hip-hop at Cornell University.“For black women and girls, and especially for women in hip-hop who are … performing their own sexuality in a liberated way, we are tempted not to see them as perfect...

Faculty participate in Ithaca's Spring Writes Literary Festival

Arts & Sciences faculty will participate in this year’s Community Arts Partnership’s Spring Writes Literary Festival, taking place in downtown Ithaca May 3-6. The festival features literary-themed events, including panels and workshops geared towards emerging and established writers, as well as events for the general public such as readings,...

Tanzania authors win Mabati-Cornell Prize

AWARD WINNERSThe winners of the third edition of the prestigious literature prize were announced online on January 15, 2018 by chair of the Board of Trustees, Abdilatif Abdalla. The awards ceremony followed in February in Nairobi.In their jury, the judges described Mmeza Fupa as: “Rarely does one encounter a Kiswahili novel whose writer...

Opening Season Continues With Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Talk And Via Sophiatown Show This Month

The first season of Louvre Abu Dhabi's public programmes continues with a lecture by Professor Salah Hassan about the pioneering Modern artist Ibhrahim El-Salahi on 18 April and South African Band Via Sophiatown (19-20 April) at the museum.With the participation of future neighbouring museum, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi together with Louvre Abu Dhabi...

The mis-education of black children

ST. PETERSBURG  –The St. Petersburg Branch NAACP, in partnership with the Legal Defense Fund and St. Petersburg College, hosted Dr. Noliwe Rooks last Friday and Saturday as she discussed the state of the educational system and her latest book, “Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education.”​Rooks, an...

Zora Neale Hurston's work reconsidered April 19

A professor from the University of Pennsylvania will visit campus April 19 to examine how writer Zora Neale Hurston’s work can be used to look at black life today.