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The T. Howard Foundation Internship Program

“The T. Howard Foundation’s mission is to promote diversity in media and entertainment by increasing the number of diverse and underrepresented groups and underserved communities within the industry.” The application for the Spring 2018, Summer 2018, and/or Fall 2018 Internship Program is now available. Accepted students are assigned full-time, paid internships at media companies […]

You’re Invited to the African American Studies Welcome Back Reception

“Residents Only: How Neighborhood Opposition Creates Exclusive Communities” BU Rhett Talk by Professor Katherine Levine Einstein

Don’t miss out on Professor Katherine Levine Einstein’s BU Rhett Talk on “Residents Only: How Neighborhood Opposition Creates Exclusive Communities” taking place this upcoming Monday, September 11th at 7:00PM in the Kilachand Hall First Floor Lounge!

Stay tuned for Professor Michael Birenbaum Quintero’s newest publications coming out this semester! Click here to see the publications and for more info.

Professor Michael Birenbaum Quintero is currently a Junior Faculty fellow at the Boston University Center for the Humanities. His newest publications include: “Loudness and Excess, Sovereignty and Abjection in a Neoliberal Frontier Zone.” Remapping Sound Studies, ed. Gavin Steingo and Jim Sykes. Durham: Duke University Press. In press (2017) “La cultura como lucha política: Teófilo Roberto Potes, intelectual afropacífico” […]

Congrats to Professor Katherine Levine Einstein for serving as a co-principal investigator on a $100,000 grant awarded for the 2017 Menino Survey of Mayors last spring!

Professor Katherine Levine Einstein is a co-principal investigator of the Menino Survey of Mayors, a multi-year data set of survey-interviews of U.S. mayors that explores a wide variety of political and policy issues. Recently, she served as a co-principal investigator on a $100,000 grant awarded last spring from the Rockefeller Foundation to the 2017 Menino […]

Professor Heywood and Professor Thornton to guest speak at Howard University African Studies Summer Institute for teachers

Professor Linda Heywood and Professor John Thornton will speak to school teachers tomorrow, August 4, 2017, at Howard University’s Center for African Studies. They will share their knowledge of history of Angola and Kongo so that educators can design lesson plans with their newfound knowledge.

Congrats to Prof. Heywood on London Book Talk

Congratulations to AFAM Studies Professor Linda Heywood for presenting a well-received talk from her book, Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen, with Carlos da Silva Jr. and Toby Green of King’s College at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, London, on July 3, 2017. Professor Heywood with fellow panelists at Black Cultural Archives Book Launch in Brixton, London, England.