12/04/2019 - Dr.

12/02/2019 - Associate Professor of African American Studies and Gender & Women's Studies, Dr.

11/20/2019 - The Department of African American Studies enthusiastically welcomes Dr. Smith and Dr. Ngumbi to the faculty as Assistant Professors.

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!

09/03/2019 - The Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (DAAS) condemns the placement of a noose in an elevator in Allen Hall over Labor Day w

08/13/2019 - Digital publishing is the future of scholarship, teaching, community leadership, and more.

08/13/2019 - About 20 Illinois students interned with The Community Builders last summer as part of an ongoing effort by the Department of African American Studies to encourage students to participate in community engagement projects.

08/08/2019 - Toni Morrison was an award-winning author, professor, and speaker. Morrison earned her Bachelor's Degree from Howard University and her Master's Degree from Cornell University.

08/01/2019 - A series of informal lectures and discussions on the innovative work going on at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the interconnectedness of AFRO with many academic disciplines and fields.

07/18/2019 - AFRO meet a wealth of new and known faces alike at Illini Fest. We were very pleased to see such interest in our department. The AFRO Department spent Thursday, July 18 at Millennium Park for the first-ever Illini Fest in Chicago, organized by the University of Illinois' new Chief Marketing Officer, Eric Minor. The event was planned with the purpose of acknowledging the large population of Illini in the Chicagoland area.

04/22/2019 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Poet Claudia Rankine, whose writing addresses issues of racism and racial violence, will visit campus this week to read from her work.

09/06/2018 - An exhibit at the University of Illinois Archives documents his official role on campus and his work on behalf of African-American students, as well as his involvement in the community and his family. The exhibit coincides with the 70th anniversary of Lee’s death, as well as the 50th anniversary of Project 500, which sought to increase the number of African-American students on campus.

08/16/2018 - Starting in the 2018-2019 academic year, Meyers will be an assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies. 

02/17/2017 - The Department of African American Studies will be sponsoring a "Freedom Forum" discussion on the topic of "Toward Black Liberation in the Era of Trump."

01/19/2017 - Dr. Ruby Mendenhall and Dr. Malaika McKee were recently interviewed by Scientific Computing to discuss their exciting research project