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Richardson explores Rosa Parks’ life in new animated video

“One of our goals with the project was to spotlight dimensions of Rosa Parks that are less familiar and to help viewers move beyond the myths."

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Students reflect on Marsalis visit: ‘He really touched my soul’

Wynton Marsalis visited campus Nov. 1-6 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.

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Infrastructure bill comes amid all-time high distrust of water

Africana Prof. Jerel Ezell comments on Pres. Biden's infrastructure bill.

Morrison’s son visits campus for film screening

The 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.

‘Still a long way to go:’ Looking back on the start of women’s studies at Cornell

As 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.

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New A&S program expands undergrad research opportunities

The 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.

Transdisciplinary film explores Trinidad and Tobago

“We Love We Self Up Here” is a new documentary focused on the complex histories of labor and migration in Trinidad and Tobago.

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Michener testifies to House committee about health care

Health is an exceptionally expensive resource in the United States, “though it should not be,” political scientist Jamila Michener told the House Rules Committee on Oct. 13.

Community of practice explores digital storytelling in the classroom

This fall, the Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) is coordinating a community of practice featuring workshops led by faculty to explore digital storytelling methods

Natalie Wolchover named A&S Zubrow Visiting Journalist for Spring 2022

The program brings accomplished journalists to Cornell each year to interact with faculty, researchers and students.

Excavation to explore church’s role in Underground Railroad

A multidisciplinary team of Cornell students and faculty and local schoolchildren began an archeological dig Sept. 18 at St. James AME Zion church in Ithaca.

Caribbean studies finds home at Einaudi Center

In addition to changing its name, the program – celebrating its 60th year – has renewed and expanded its commitment to the study of the Caribbean cultures, places and people.

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Applications now open for Klarman postdoc fellowships in A&S

Applications are now being accepted for the third cohort of the Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships program in the College of Arts and Sciences. The deadline for submission is Oct. 15.

Ricardo A. Wilson II

Ricardo Wilson received his PhD in comparative literature from the University of Southern California in 2015 and is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies and the Society for the Humanities. His current book project, Toward the Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Radical Blackness, responds to a growing tendency to view the United States as moving toward a more fluid idea of race that characterizes, at least in the imaginary, many Latin American nations. By investigating the historical archive along side literature and film from the United States and Mexico, the project looks to articulate, from the perspectives of their respective national psychological apparatuses, the phenomenon of a disappearing radical blackness in postracial and multiracial discourses.

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Makda Weatherspoon

Makda Weatherspoonis a Senior Lecturer of Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, where she has been teaching since the Fall of 2008. She has also taught at the University of Washington (Seattle), Middlebury Language Program, and worked as a Curriculum Developer of online Arabic materials at the University of Cambridge, Language Centre, UK. Prior to joining Cornell, she worked as an English instructor with immigrants and refugees who were preparing to take their American citizenship tests and naturalization interviews, among other things.

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James Turner

James Turner is the founding Director of the Africana Studies & Research Center--founded 1969--and is a professor emeritus of African and African American Politics and Social Policy at Cornell. He also organized Cornell's Council on African Studies, forming a basis for the university's interdisciplinary African Studies. Turner initiated the term Africana Studies to conceptualize the comprehensive studies of the African diaspora and the three primary global Black communities--Africa, North America, and the Caribbean. The Africana paradigm is now widely adopted by educational programs as the epistemology for the field of Black Studies. Turner was a founding member of TransAfrica, an African American lobbying organization. During the 1970's, he was national organizer of the Southern Africa Liberation Support Committee, which pressed the anti-apartheid campaign in the United States. In 1974, he served as chair of the North American delegation to the Sixth Pan African Congress, and in 1973, he co-chaired the International Congress of Africanists in Ethiopia. As a Schomburg Research Fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Turner conducted research on the political philosophy of Malcolm X that served as the basis for his work on the prize-winning PBS series Eyes on the Prize. The recipient of the Association of Black Sociologists' Award of Distinction, he has served as president of the African Heritage Studies Association and on the editorial boards of several leading Black Studies journals.

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Digital Storytelling Community of Practice: Voices on the Underground Railroad

In 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...

Reflecting on Rosa Parks + Producing Scholarship & Art in the 21st Century

Program 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...

Black Urban America

On 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...

MAC Authors Spotlight

The 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 (...

Dr. Carole Boyce Davies: Lessons from the Diaspora

Dr. 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...

Researchers Seek Artifacts Of Underground Railroad At Ithaca Church

'Without many artifacts or a specific archaeological path, oral histories and legends have filled in the gaps of the Underground Railroad’s history. The archaeological dig gives the church the opportunity to find artifacts to support the oral histories.'It’s not to say one is better than the other, but they give us a more comprehensive view,”...

20th Century African-American History Search

The Africana Studies & Research Center, an interdisciplinary department in the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University, is engaged in an exciting process of enhancing its faculty. We are specifically searching for a scholar of twentieth-century African American history with a strong commitment to excellence in teaching and service...