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Video: Professor Linda Panel Talk on Queen Njinga

You can now stream Professor Linda Heywood‘s talk at UN Women, “The Depiction of Women and Women Leaders in Film, History and Society,” on YouTube. Start off #WomensHistoryMonth right by learning about Queen Njinga of Angola.  

60 Seconds of Blackness

NEWS FLASH: BU Today article about BU AFAM MA candidate Lynae Bogues! Check out this incredible story! #AFAMblackhistoryseason 60 Seconds of Blackness

Professor Linda Heywood on Panel Discussion

BU African American Studies and History Professor Linda Heywood will be on a panel event hosted by the U.S. National Committee for UN Women at CSW62. The event will be a panel discussion called The Depiction of Women and Women Leaders in Film, History and Society. Dr. Heywood will be on a panel with Geena Davis Institute […]

Douglass Day 2018 at the American Antiquarian Society

Douglass Day 2018 at the American Antiquarian Society Wednesday, February 14, 2018 – 12:00pm to 3:00pm To celebrate the 200th birthday of Frederick Douglass, the Colored Conventions Project, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Smithsonian Transcription Center are gathering communities across the US and abroad to transcribe the Freedmen’s […]

Let Us March On: Lee Friedlander and the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom

February 2 – March 25, 2018 Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery This exhibition presents photographer Lee Friedlander’s images of the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, a critical yet generally neglected moment in American civil rights history. On May 17, 1957—the third anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, […]

Remaking Black Power: Reception and Book Signing

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era Reception and Book Signing RSVP HERE In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women’s political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought […]

“Speculations on Representations of Mixed Race Caribbean Women in European Novels, 1808-1827” by Prof. Nicole Aljoe on 11/27

Professor Nicole N. Aljoe is an associate professor of English and African American Studies at Northeastern University. Her fields of specialization are eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Black Atlantic Literature, the Slave Narrative, Postcolonial Studies, and eighteenth-century British Novel. Professor Aljoe’s recent publications include “Caribbean Slave Narratives” in The Oxford Handbook of African American Slave Narratives. She […]