05/02/2021 - For Land and Liberty is a comparative study of the history and contemporary circumstances concerning Brazil’s quilombos (African-descent rural communities) and their inhabitants,...
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04/14/2021 - Dr. Bobby Smith II has received the 2021 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. Read the full article here. Please...
03/19/2021 - The Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign stands in solidarity with educators, students, and community members nationwide in denouncing the...
02/10/2021 - Full article: https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1471956550
12/18/2020 - A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor of African American studies, Bobby Smith II...
06/13/2020 - Dr. Faye Harrison published an op-ed article, “How a Divided America Faces a Convergence of Multiple Crises,” in Pravda, a major center-left newspaper in Slovakia.
06/13/2020 - African American Studies’ core faculty members Faye Harrison and Esther Ngumbi have joined Ken Salo (Urban & Regional Planning/African Studies), Krystal Smalls (Anthropology/Linguistics),...
06/02/2020 - Once again, we have witnessed white police and vigilantes murder Black people in the United States. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Tony McDade died violently and needlessly at the...
01/27/2020 - Two articles authored by Dr. Bobby J. Smith II are featured in the 7th Edition of An Annotated Bibliography on Structural Racism Present in the U.S. Food System (January 2020) by the Michigan State...
01/23/2020 - AFRO will be hosting three candidates for a new joint-position with the Department of Religion and the Department of African American Studies. Each candidate will be presenting their research and...
01/21/2020 - Pest management and preventative measures are discussed in Dr. Ngumbi's article featured on theconversation.com
12/04/2019 - Dr. Desirée McMillion’s AFRO 382 – African American Families in Film class, had the privilege of a full two hour discussion with Director, Chuck Smith of the Goodman Theatre in...
12/02/2019 - Dr. Karen Flynn has received two awards for her article, "Hotel Refuses Negro Nurse": Gloria Clark Baylis and the Queen Elizabeth Hotel
11/20/2019 - The Department of African American Studies enthusiastically welcomes Dr. Smith and Dr. Ngumbi to the faculty as Assistant Professors. Dr. Smith's work focuses on food justice in the United States,...
10/03/2019 - Celebrate AFRO's 50th anniversary and commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans arriving in America by attending some of these wonderful events!
