
Infrastructure bill comes amid all-time high distrust of water
Africana Prof. Jerel Ezell comments on Pres. Biden's infrastructure bill.
/news/infrastructure-bill-comes-amid-all-time-high-distrust-waterAfricana Prof. Jerel Ezell comments on Pres. Biden's infrastructure bill.
/news/infrastructure-bill-comes-amid-all-time-high-distrust-waterIn the first of this year's Digital Storytelling Community of Practice events, Cornell's Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) hosted a discussion featuring the collaboration between the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity and Africana's Underground Railroad Seminar to build the website, Voices on the Underground Railroad, which will be...
/news/digital-storytelling-community-practice-voices-underground-railroadProgram Description: In this talk, Riché Richardson reflects on the life, activism and continuing significance of civil rights leader Rosa Parks. Richardson draws on the leader’s legacy and work with children to reflect on her own life path, mentors, and early community service work as a student at the historic St. Jude Educational Institute in...
/news/reflecting-rosa-parks-producing-scholarship-art-21st-centuryThe son of Toni Morrison M.A. ’55, will visit campus Nov. 9 for a film screening and discussion of “The Foreigner’s Home,” a documentary based on Morrison’s monthlong guest-curated 2006 series of cultural events at the Louvre.
/news/morrisons-son-visits-campus-film-screeningOn Tuesday, October 26th at 8pm eastern standard time, 7pm central and 5pm pacific standard times, We Talk Productions presents Black Urban America. The guest is Professor Riche Richardson ( Professor of African American Literature in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. Professor Richardson will discuss her article...
/news/black-urban-americaThe Montgomery (AL) Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Arts & Letters Committee presents MAC Authors Spotlight featuring chapter members who have penned books that reflect genres and themes from memoir, social justice, popular culture, black feminism, to religious/self-help. The presentation spotlights authors Valvier Bright (...
/news/mac-authors-spotlightAs Cornell's women's studies program celebrates its 50th anniversary this year – along with the 30th anniversary of the LGBT studies program – faculty and alumni from the early days of the program are remembering the barriers they hurdled, as well as the support they received, as they sought to establish the program in 1972.
/news/still-long-way-go-looking-back-start-womens-studies-cornellThe Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.
/news/new-program-expands-undergrad-research-opportunities“We Love We Self Up Here” is a new documentary focused on the complex histories of labor and migration in Trinidad and Tobago.
/news/transdisciplinary-film-explores-trinidad-and-tobagoDr. Carole Boyce Davies’ lengthy title at Cornell University — Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters in the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of Africana studies and literatures in English — denotes an impressive career in academia but doesn’t begin to describe the international recognition she has received and the breadth of her...
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