In order to contemplate, reflect, and relate to this legacy, we are pleased to celebrate Malcolm X’s centennial birthday with this symposium of academic papers and reflections.

This talk draws on Ella Fitzgerald’s famous print advertisements and television commercials for Memorex cassette tapes during the 1970s in an effort to braid two seemingly ...

A public lecture by Noah Tamarkin, Cornell University. Presented by the Religion Department's Forum on Race & Religion.

Nikki A. Greene will focus on Radcliffe Bailey's multilayered surfaces of glitter and recycled materials to meditate on aspects of Black culture from Sun Ra’s Afrofuturism to ...

A conversation with feminist theorist Moon Charania and Thurgood Marshall Postdoctoral Fellow Endia Hayes on Charania's book, Archive of Tongues (2023)

Planetary Extractions is a two-day symposium that engages environmental humanities with critical decolonial perspectives from the perspective of ethnic studies.

Artist-in-residence Tomeka Reid (jazz cello) and her ensemble perform commissioned works written to celebrate Duke Ellington's 125th birthday.

Artist-in-residence Tomeka Reid (jazz cello) and her ensemble perform commissioned works written to celebrate Duke Ellington's 125th birthday.

In this deeply personal film, director Ines Johnson-Spain confronts the experience of having grown up in a white East German family without being told that she is Black.

Join us as Professor Henderson embarks on an exploration of interiority animated by deep, intense reflection about existential crises through the landscape of RnB music and culture