March 7, 2025 Ashleigh Wade delivered the opening keynote at the University of Kentucky’s 30th Black Women’s Conference, which took place March 7-8. The conference theme for this year was: “We Are the Culture: A Symposium on Black Girls and Girlhood
March 1, 2025 Woodson faculty members Nemata Blyden and Sabrina Pendergrass, featured on PBS' "Great Migrations" Series (2025)
March 7, 2025 Robin Means Coleman's new book The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Films was published in March 2025 with Oxford University Press. This is Professor Coleman's third book in two years
May 4, 2024 People want to breathe better air in Hampton Roads, Virginia. How Kim Fields and the Repair Lab are working with community members to seek environmental justice for the decades of coal dust that they’ve inhaled.
January 17, 2025 Kimberly Fields awarded a Pioneering Ideas Grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for her project The Future of Evidence: Low-Cost Sensing, Local Knowledge, and Evidence to Drive Change Around Airborne Coal Dust
January 29, 2025 Kimberly Fields published an article in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Among the co-authors are two recent UVA Graduate students who were former students in her class and Repair Lab research assistants
February 17, 2025 Andrew Kahrl's book The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (U. Chicago Press, 2024) has been named a finalist in the History category for the LA Times Book Prize
February 3, 2025 Andrew Kahrl delivered the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture at Vanderbilt Law School in which he discussed his recent book The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
February 6, 2025 Fatima Siwaju a panelist at an event hosted by The Yale Ethnography Hub on Ethnography and Citizenship: Global and Local Perspectives
