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A virtual celebration was held on March 27, 2021 to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the first book on Caribbean Women Writers, Out of the KUMBLA, a groundbreaking collection of writings on Caribbean women’s literature. The event also honored Sylvia Wynter, Jamaican novelist, dramatist, critic, philosopher, and essayist.The event featured...
"Evanston's program, OK'd this week and funded by a tax on recreational marijuana, is the first nationally to frame its program as reparations and direct payments to those impacted by past discriminatory housing policies.That effort has met with some hesitation. While applauded for recognizing the past harm that was done, there is concern that...
"On his part, Prof. Mukoma wa Ngugi, an Associate Professor of English at Cornell University, and the co-founder of Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature, spoke about the importance of languages in the society.'The question is: what is a language? You could take a language to be transactional, but you could take language as...
Black Land Matters: A Rural Humanities Webinar on Black Farming and Food SecurityThursday, March 4, 5:00pmThis webinar is a conversation between Natalie Baszile, filmmaker and author of the novel Queen Sugar, and Karen Washington, farmer and co-owner at Rise & Root Farm in Chester, NY and activist and co-founder of Black Urban Growers (BUGS...
"N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba joins us in conversation this week to discuss her new book, the history of human capital theory, education in Africa, and tells us what is giving her hope."Listen to the podcast at www.ufahamuafrica.com
"This week, the Victorian Government launched a truth telling commission to investigate the ongoing effects of colonisation on the state's indigenous community.The commission aims to investigate both historical and ongoing injustices against Aboriginal Australians.It's the first inquiry of its kind in Australia and has been compared to South...
Carole Boyce Davies delivered the keynote lecture for a conference on "Making African America. On Immigration and the Changing Dynamics of Blackness" sponsored by the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Center for Global Migration Studies, University of Maryland, on March 5th, 2021.Watch the keynote address here:...
"Zifeng Liu of Cornell University sees some evidence that, in the minds of radicals, old cold-war attachments still remain. Many are reluctant to criticise China’s treatment of the Uyghurs, for example, because, by cold-war logic, that makes you pro-American, he explains. Even Ms McKinley, although “not a supporter of the ccp”, is “sceptical” of...
“Cornell University has partnered with local organizations, including Southside Community Center and Mutual Aid Tompkins, for community-learning projects with various objectives including learning how to address opioid use by the Black community,” writes the Ithaca Journal. “Jerel Ezell, assistant professor in Africana Studies and team lead, calls...
Please join Naminata Diabate for a book Discussion. Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 4:00 to 5:30 pm REGISTER HEREIn this new series, we highlight former Fellows’ monographs that grew out of their residency projects at the Society for the Humanities. We begin with Cornell professor of comparative literature, Naminata Diabate, Faculty Fellow 2016-17...
"Siba Grovogui, a professor of international relations theory and law at Cornell University, said the Black Lives Matter movement has given the public the authorization to use certain vocabulary in reference to the United States.Grovogui said the term “failed state” can now be applied to the United States in light of the racism prevailing within...
“'I definitely understand the impulse to rethink some of the local school names in San Francisco, in light of what happened in Charlottesville,” said Riché Richardson, an associate professor of African American literature at Cornell University."Richardson helped spark debate to rename Aunt Jemima, explaining what the name and symbol meant, its...
A People’s Anthology: Episode One“An End of the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!” by Claudia Jones.Read and introduced by Carole Boyce Davies. Listen to the podcast here: A People’s Anthology: Episode One | Boston Review
“’The way to access power and authority in the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s was to attire yourself in ways that showed you were equal to them. And to not scare them,’ said Noliwe Rooks, a professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University and author of the book Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture and African American Women. ‘Always put on (nice) clothes. Always...
Worldwide protests against police brutality, an armed attack on the Capitol, protests in Europe and the U.S. against COVID restrictions– 2020 and 2021 stand out as years when those on the left and the right turned to both peaceful and armed protests to change the directions governments were headed. Structural racism and racial inequality were at...
Watch the Al Jazeera Video featuring Noliwe Rooks. A Race for America | The Big Picture - YouTube
The Ithaca Times covered an upcoming event:"Celebrating the author’s work and the community-building tradition of African American quilt-making, the Toni Morrison Quilting Project kicks off on Feb. 22, noon to 1:30 p.m., with a virtual quilting traditions workshop, featuring Ithaca-based fiber artist Heather Stewart."Organized by Cornell...
All of these events are part of the College of Arts & Sciences’ Arts Unplugged series, which brings artistic, scientific and creative works into the public sphere for discussion and inspiration.Morrison earned a B.S. in English in 1953 at Howard University and a master’s degree in American literature in 1955 at Cornell. An A.D. White...
The school described the four projects in a press release. "Understanding and Supporting Communities within Communities" involves four students who will connect with Black community member who use opioids. With help from Southside Community Center and the local REACH Project, a harm reduction-focused drug addiction services facility, the project...
"This Aunt Jemima logo was an outgrowth of Old South plantation nostalgia and romance grounded in an idea about the 'mammy,' a devoted and submissive servant who eagerly nurtured the children of her white master and mistress while neglecting her own," Riché Richardson, an associate professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell...
...In addition to the rebranding, the newly established Pearl Milling Company also said on Tuesday that it was making a $1 million commitment to empower and uplift Black girls and women. The money is in addition to a $400 million, five-year investment to support Black business and communities, and increase Black representation at PepsiCo, the...
Announcing the 2020-21 Fellows at the Society for the HumanitiesSociety for the Humanities FellowsLeslie M. Alexander, History, Arizona State UniversityLegacies of Slavery in Modern-Day Policing and Mass IncarcerationYomaira C. Figueroa-Vàsquez, English, Michigan State UniversityArchive of Disappearances: Afterimages of Afro-Puerto Ricans at...
Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui is Professor of International Relations Theory and African Political Thought at Cornell University in the United States of America. He is also the Nelson Mandela Visiting Professor in the Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes University for 2020 and 2021. He is the author of Sovereigns, Quasi...
I [Gerard Aching] was very saddened by the news of KAR’s passing. They had enrolled in two courses with me in the spring of 2020: Underground Railroad Seminar (an Africana course) and the Rural Humanities Seminar (offered through the Rural Humanities Initiative, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and housed in the Society for the Humanities...
“The Capitol riot raises the issue again of police and prosecutorial discretion.”Police and prosecutors have tremendous discretion in how the crimes of the Capitol rioters will be weighed. Critics who have complained that prosecutors have dogged Black Lives Matter protesters with punitive felony charges for acts of civil disobedience dating back...