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Textiles Tell Stories Highlights BU Libraries African Textiles Collection

April 11, 2025
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New Major

African American and Black Diaspora Studies Is BU’s Newest Major

April 25, 2022
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Artificial Intelligence

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February 11, 2021
Composite image of book covers of the following books: Lucy, by Jamaica Kincaid (1990), Aye, and Gomorrah, by Samuel R. Delany (1967), The Women, by Hilton Als (1996), Black No More, George S. Schuyler (1931), The Wine of Astonishment, by Earl Lovelace (1982, Corregidora, by Gayl Jones (1975)
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For #BlackoutBestsellerList Movement, Six Must-Read Books

June 17, 2020
Black Panther in his titular movie, fighting off helicopters
Film

Afrofuturism in the Age of Black Panther

April 18, 2019
Louis Chude-Sokei
Business & Law

Louis Chude-Sokei Wants African American Studies Program to Be a Central Place

April 26, 2018
Arts & Culture

60 Seconds of Blackness

February 21, 2018
Timothy Longman with youth from Kabarondo, a village in the Eastern Province of Rwanda
Science & Technology

Telling the Truth about Rwanda

January 31, 2018
1) Fallou Ngom, a CAS professor of anthropology and director of the African Studies Center, with Amadou Ndiaye, an Ajami and Arabic bookseller in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Photo courtesy of Ablaye Diakité
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Libraries and Archives Meet the Digital Age

October 5, 2017
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A Global Taste of Honey for Questrom Grad Student

May 1, 2017
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Study Abroad

Cuban Culture Shapes a Spring Break Trip

March 20, 2017
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African Studies

Challenging Assumptions about Africa’s Exploding Youth Population

July 21, 2016

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