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
January 17, 2025 Fatima Siwaju's project entitled “Never Surrender Yet: Narratives of Resistance and Resilience in Afro-Trinidadian Islam” has been published with the support of the Crossroads Project on Black Religious Histories, Communities, and Cultures
January 17, 2025 Naseemah Mohamed traveled to Molokai with Dr. Robin Garcia, student Sophia Gibby, and alumna Grace Gray, funded by the UVA Provost’s Office. Their collaboration with Ho’aka Mana, a Native Hawaiian-led organization, explored cultural revitalization
January 31, 2025 Nemata Blyden to give keynote address for the academic conference connected to the 2025 Zora! Festival
October 7, 2024 Jennifer C. Nash gave a talk on UVA Grounds as part of a co-sponsered event with the Department of English
January 17, 2025 Martin Luther King, Jr.'s eldest son Martin Luther King, III visited Nemata Blyden's Introduction to African American and African Studies course last semester. Blyden introduced King to the class of nearly 120 students
January 13, 2025 Former Woodson faculty member Marlene Daut's forthcoming monograph (January 2025) The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe was reviewed in The American Scholar
