2023
ASC: Idriss Fofana, Harvard University
ASC: Rudo Mudiwa, University of California, Irvine
Thursday, October 26th
10:30 pm - 12:00 pm
Minor 110
Rudo Mudiwa, Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine
Listening Party with A.D. Carson
Thursday, September 28th
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Minor 125, reception to follow
V: Illicit: “A mixtap/e/ssay about what it means to be dope. Dope is not only a measure of quality or coolness, it is rooted in the experiences of Black people in the U.S. since its beginnings.”
Dopeness predates this focus on drugs and the people projected as their primary sellers, users, and abusers. It is also about permission and sanctioning.
Meet the Fellows 2023
REPAIR Lab: Norfolk Community-Engaged Research with Kim Sudderth, Practitioner, and Kimberly Fields, UVA Politics
Kim Fields leads a conversation on their community-engaged research within the city of Norfolk, VA
As its only remaining elected officials depart, Haiti reaches a breaking point
Robert Fatton, Jr., Woodson faculty affiliate, was quoted in an NPR piece about Haiti's political crisis
Martin Luther King Day: The song that changed the US
Kevin Gaines featured in a BBC Culture article on Stevie Wonder's role in making the MLK national holiday a reality.
Left of Black | Dr. Julius B. Fleming, Jr. on "Black Patience" and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Julius Fleming, Jr., Woodson fellowship class of 2018, was interviewed on the Left of Black web series about his new book Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation
Deborah E. McDowell authored the foreward to The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison
Deborah E. McDowell authored the foreward to The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison