Dr. Koritha Mitchell featured in Time Magazine

Koritha Mitchell, Professor of English and African American Literature recently published an article in TIME.  “I’ve been encouraged to see affinity groups organize in support of the Harris campaign, but I know how easily Americans can turn that into something ugly. I therefore wrote this piece for TIME that I hope you’ll find useful and worth […]

Now Hiring! Fall Student Employment Opportunities at the Howard Thurman Center

Announcement from Danielle DeCourcey, the marketing and communications assistant director at BU’s Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground. If you’re not familiar with the HTC, our mission is to create experiences and spaces that build community and encourage self-exploration between people of different backgrounds and identities. We currently have open graduate-level positions for events, programs, […]

Upcoming Afro-Cuban Music Workshop and festival rehearsal led by Sandy Perez

The next Afro-Cuban music workshop will be held Saturday June 8th (details below). Among other things we will be rehearsing to perform a comparsa at the Lynn Music Festival on June 22nd at 5:20pm. The Saturday Afro-Cuban music workshop series led by the renowned Cuban master drummer Sandy Perez and sponsored by the Lynn Music […]

Saida Grundy wins 2024 Race, Gender, and Class Book Award

Saida Grundy’s book Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man (University of California Press, 2022) recently won the ASA’s 2024 Race, Gender, and Class Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award. The award recognizes a scholar who “has made a significant contribution to the development of the integrative field of race, gender, and class through […]

Dr. Louis Chude-Sokei featured in ‘The New York Review’ Article

Louis Chude-Sokei; illustration by Lorenzo Gritti Dr. Louis Chude-Sokei, director of The African American and Black Diaspora Studies Program and Professor of English, was recently featured in an article by The New York Review, Black Atlantics. Written by Adom Getachew, Professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago.  The […]

Experiencing Cuba 2024

Professors Michael Birembaum Quintero and Ana María Reyes led the course CAS AA306E/CFA MH563 – Experiencing Cuba: History, Culture and Politics,” during the 2024 Spring Break. The course was sponsored by The African American & Black Diaspora Studies (AFAMBDS) Program, the History of Art & Architecture Department, the Political Science Department, the College of Fine […]

Upcoming Event: Black2BU for Alumni Weekend

in Program Events

Don’t miss the third annual Black2BU event! Friday, Sept. 22 at 4-8 PM The AFAMBDS House, 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline, MA 02446 Register on Eventbrite Join us for our annual alumni reunion and Fall kick-off! There will be a live DJ, performances, food, fun, and games.

Come Visit Our New Student Lounge Space

in Student News

Come visit our new student lounge this fall! Starting September 5, it will be open 9am – 5pm Monday – Friday, with extended hours during study periods. Use it as a group study space, or just come hang out with our staff.

Now Available: 53.2, The Shape of Things to Come: Africology and the Rise of Afrofuturist Studies

in The Black Scholar

New approaches to African American Studies advance the discipline in the twenty-First Century. Philadelphia, PA (May 31, 2023) – The next generation of Africology and African American Studies is exploring the growing significance of the generative ideas and intersection of Afrofuturism, Afropessimism, posthumanism, esotericism, metamodernism artificial intelligence, forecasting. and culture. The theories highlighted in The Shape […]