2019 marks the 15th-anniversary of the publication of Laurent Dubois’s Avengers of the New World (2004), the first narrative history of the Haitian Revolution to be published in the English language since the landmark appearance of C.L.R. James’s The Black Jacobins in 1938. Dubois' book heralded a new era of interest in the Haitian Revolution among Anglophone scholars.

African Studies Colloquium Series presentation by Kwame E. Otu. 

Phonographic Memories is the first book to perform a sustained analysis of the narrative and thematic influence of Caribbean popular music on the Caribbean novel. Tracing a region-wide attention to the deep connections between music and memory in the work of Lawrence Scott, Oscar Hijuelos, Colin Channer, Daniel Maximin, and Ramabai Espinet, Njelle Hamilton tunes in to each novel's soundtrack while considering the broader listening cultures that sustain collective memory and situate Caribbean subjects in specific localities.

A Currents in Conversation event discussing the widely popular film "Judas and the Black Messiah."  

Panelists include:

• Lynn French, former Black Panther Party member
• Mary Phillips, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Lehman College, CUNY
• A.D. Carson, Assistant Professor of Hip-Hop and the Global South,
• UVA Moderated by Kwame E. Otu, Assistant Professor of African-American and African Studies, UVA

The Woodson's annual "Meet the Fellows" event showcases the current research projects of our residential pre-and post-doctoral fellows. For a full list of the current Woodson Fellows, including each fellow's project title and bio, visit the Carter G. Woodson Institute website: https://woodson.as.virginia.edu/woodson-fellows

A roundtable discussion on Jarvis R. Givens new book: Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching. Panelists include Francille Wilson, University of Southern California; Pero Dagbovie, Michigan State University. The event was moderated by Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia

Anchored by Khalil Muhammad, Executive Director of the Schomburg Center in Black Culture (of the New York Public Library), the forum, titled "Engaging Race:  On Violence, Citizenship, and Social Justice,” is inspired by recent events in Charleston, South Carolina.  But the Charleston massacre is but one catalyst for engaging a range of issues emerging in its wake.  Among these, by no means new to this hour, are:  the underreported escalation of black church burnings over the last several weeks, the controversy surrounding the Confederate flag, and the unabated instances

"Choice" has become the buzz word across the policy spectrum, especially in housing, schools, and health care. This talk questions the assumptions, ideology and philosophy undergirding public school choice, using data from two projects. The first focuses on how black community leaders work with whites to bring "choice" schools to a gentrifying black neighborhood in Chicago.

Video from the annual event "Meet the Fellows" to welcome new members of the Carter G. Woodson's distinguished fellowship program.

Extended description of the Fellows and their projects (in order of appearance):

Tiffany Barber Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Art and Art History) University of Rochester "Undesirability and the Value of Blackness in Contemporary Art"

Lyndsey Beutin Pre-Doctoral Fellow University of Pennsylvania (Annenberg School for Communication) "If Slavery’s Not Black: The stakes of the U.S. State Department’s campaign against human trafficking"

Panel discussion on the new book "Julian Bond's Time To Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement" with co-editors Pamela Horowitz and Jeanne Theoharis. Moderated by Kevin Gaines, Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice at UVA