Abraham Seda, Woodson pre-doctoral fellow, published an article in Black Perspectives
Abraham Seda, Woodson pre-doctoral fellow, published an article in Black Perspectives: Jack Johnson and Africa: Boxing and Race in Colonial Africa
Abraham Seda, Woodson pre-doctoral fellow, published an article in Black Perspectives: Jack Johnson and Africa: Boxing and Race in Colonial Africa
McDowell featured in the inaugural edition of Amplify, a publication from the Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Virginia
Kevin Gaines published "Reflections on Ben Okri, Goenawan Mohamad, and the 2020 Global Uprisings" in the Journal of Transnational American Studies. The essay addresses the Black Lives Matter movement and international press coverage on the murder of George Floyd.
Ashon Crawley won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBTQ Nonfiction for his book The Lonely Letters
Marlene Daut awarded 2021 Ford Foundation Fellowship for her project: Dreaming Freedom: The Story of the First and Last King of Haiti
Black History Month, a time of pride, celebration and remembrance during the month of February, was first recognized in the U.S. in 1976 under former president Gerald R. Ford. It began as a way to commemorate efforts of the African diaspora, and was developed from the efforts of Carter G. Woodson — a Virginian scholar who sought to dedicate a week in February to the coordinated teaching of Black history in public schools.
Alexandria Smith, current Woodson post-doctoral fellow published "Being in the Black Queer Diaspora: Embodied Archi
Zalika Ibaorimi's essay "The (Ho)rror of It All: Ganja & Hess, Summer Walker and the Soundtrack of Ho Ontologies" was published in the December 2021 issue of the Journal of Popular Music Studies