This Friday: AFAMBDS Block Party

Spring is here, which means it’s time to celebrate the end of another successful academic year! Join us on Friday, April 28th, from 4 pm – 7 pm at the African American & Black Diaspora Studies Building (138 Mountfort St, Brookline, MA 02446). There will be music by DJ Troy Frost, soul food from Darryl’s […]

AFAMBDS Student Employee Charlot Valerio featured in CAS Q&A

  Charlot Valerio (CAS’26) was recently interviewed by CAS for a Q&A titled “Diaspora Chats Panel Explores Racial Identity.” In the Q&A, Charlot discusses our program’s recent student-led forum Diaspora Chats. Hosted on Thursday, April 20, 2023, Diaspora Chats was a student-faculty discussion on identity within the Black Diaspora, aiming to challenge conventional ideas surrounding the […]

Fall 2023 Course Spotlight: CAS AA400 – Slavery and the In-Between

Slavery and the In-Between with Professor Andree Cunningham Tues/Thurs 3:30 – 4:45 PM This course examines the space between freedom and enslavement known as recaptivity. Course discussions will focus on historical and social conceptions of freedom, and how these conceptions relate to recaptive status. We will review recaptivity contexts documented in both the historical and […]

Dr. John Thornton quoted in Boston Globe article

Dr. John Thornton, professor of History and AABDS at BU, was recently quoted in a Boston Globe article, A look into how AP African-American Studies is taught at a Cambridge school. “The misunderstanding that we have in Florida is that somehow this course is going to be an indoctrination and Critical Race Theory is going to […]

Upcoming Event: Ur Tournament at the HTC

On April  11 at 6:00 PM, the Howard Thurman Center and Grammy Award Winning Rap Artist Lupe Fiasco are hosting a tournament for the oldest game in the world, Ur. The Royal Game of Ur is the oldest known board game, first played in Mesopotamia over 4,000 years ago. It’s a two-player board game that combines strategy, […]

UROP Humanities, Arts, and Preprofessional (HAP) Scholars Award

UROP has recently modified the former Humanities Scholars Award. Beginning in summer 2023, The Humanities, Arts, and Preprofessional (HAP) Scholars Award will provide stipend funding for students conducting research in the humanities, arts, and certain preprofessional fields including SHA, Questrom, and COM. The HAP Scholars Award has an extended application deadline of May 1, 2023. Students […]

Upcoming Event featuring Dr. Chude-Sokei

The Favorite Poem Project and the BU Jewish Cultural Endowment Present: Favorite Passages from the Old Testament: A Hebrew Bible Reading April 14, 2023 at 7:00 PM Leventhal Auditorium 233 Bay State Rd, Boston, MA 02215 Featuring: Robert Pinsky, Erika Meitner, Alicia Ostriker, Philip Schultz, Louis Chude-Sokei, Karl Kirchwey, Natalie Shapero, Susan Mizruchi, Jean Morrison, […]

Paid Internship Opportunity: CAS Communications

CAS Communications is accepting applications for summer and academic year writing internships. The internship is open to current undergraduate and graduate students in all BU schools. Candidates should have strong writing skills. Previous journalism experience or journalism coursework preferred. For summer, interns may work up to 20 hours/ week. For fall, we’re looking for students […]