Friday, September 23 @ 12:00pm CST
University YMCA
Speaker: Kofi Bazzell-Smith, Graduate Student in New Media, College of Art and Design, and Professional Boxer: AZUKI! Manga as a Bridge Between Cultures.
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We are pleased to announce that Professor Leonard C. McKinnis has been named a 2022-2023 OpEd Public Voices Fellow. One of 20 scholars selected from across the University of Illinois system to participate in this innovate fellowship, Professor McKinnis will join his cohort of Public Voices Fellows in crafting his research and voice to reach a larger public audience. The Public Voices...
The Department of African American Studies is excited to announce the addition of a new junior faculty member, Professor Eddie O’Byrn. We welcome Professor Eddie O’Byrn as we continue our commitment to excellence in teaching and research. Dr. O’Byrn is a scholar of critical philosophy of race and Black American philosophy with research spanning 19th, 20th, and 21st century Western...
Ronald W. Bailey of the Department of African American Studies and Antoinette Burton of The Humanities Institute nominated Dr. Lonnie Bunch III to receive an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of Illinois in 2020. Covid-19 delayed Dr. Bunch's visit to campus until this year's 2022 Commencement. In addition to receiving the honorary degree, Dr. Bunch was hosted at...
Dr. Bailey sent a message to congratulate graduating students and recognize professors' accomplishments. Read his letter here.
Dr. Desiree McMillion has been selected as one of the winners of the Ebony Excellence Award at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The Ebony Excellence Award Ceremony is a night to celebrate our Black students, faculty and staff on another year of thriving at UIUC. We are so excited to present Dr. Desirée McMillion with this award for all of her hard work this academic year...
Dr. Esther Ngumbi has been chosen by LAS Honors as the LAS James Scholar Honors Program Faculty Mentor of the Year for 2021-2022. This award recognizes a faculty member who exemplifies the Honors mission and who has inspired, supported, and challenged their students to develop as an Honors student and as an individual. This award is...
The American Dance Festival (ADF) is awarding Dr. Kariamu Welsh the Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching. ADF granted her this honor in 2020, but the pandemic forced cancellation of the celebration. Dr. Welsh requested that the celebration happen when the event could take place in person. Unfortunately, she passed away before it could...
Dr. Desirée McMillion had the privilege of hosting Dr. Robyn Collymore, University of Illinois (Class of 1982) African American Studies major, in her AFRO 226 Black Women in Contemporary US Society course. This course focuses on the sociological perspective of the experience of African American women in the contemporary United States. Specifically, an examination of relationships...
Dr. Doris Derby was well-known for her role as an activist in the Civil Rights movement, especially in Mississippi, and as a photographer and artist who captured and conveyed the soul of the movement. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Illinois and was active in many cultural arts programs on campus. In 2016, she was nominated for an award from the Alumni...- Dr. Bobby J. Smith II has been invited to give an in-person talk on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 1:00pm as part of the inaugural Planning Colloquium in the UIUC Department of Urban and Regional Planning in 223 Temple Buell Hall. The title of the talk is “Black Visions of Food Justice: A Triple Food Movement Analysis.” Here is the talk announcement link:...
- Everyone is invited to the upcoming Staged Reading of Xtigone by Nambi E. Kelley, an African-American playwright. Directed by Charence O'Higgins (MFA Theatre UIUC) and Paul O'Mahony (Founder and Director of Out of Chaos Theatre, London, U.K.). The actors are high school students from local high schools and will perform the reading on March 25, 6 p.m. at Combes Gym,...
Professor Irvin J. Hunt will be presenting on Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement on Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at the Caxton Club in Chicago Illinois. In-person and Zoom options are available, but you must register by March 11, 2022. Click here to view the flyer. Click...- Dr. Bobby J Smith II was invited to give a talk on April 14, 2022 at 6:00pm as part of the inaugural UIUC Metropolitan Food and Environmental Systems Student Association’s (MFSTSA) Talk Series: Reimagining Our Food Systems. His presentation is titled "Food Justice in Black Communities". The series is virtual and the flyer is below. Here is the free registration link:...
- On Friday, March 4 at 3:00, The Center for African Studies is sponsoring, "Africa, Race and the War in Ukraine: An Open Discussion". This will be on Zoom and there will be an opportunity for people to share perspectives and ideas after introductory remarks by CAS director Terri Barnes and our colleague, Erik McDuffie. All are welcome to attend! ...