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Amanda Boston (XXII) Recognized as 2021 Alumni Prize Recipient for Her Service to the Prep Community
Amanda Boston publishes article in Critical Sociology as part of symposium entitled "Race & Money"
Yolanda Covington-Ward's second edited volume, "African performance Arts and Political Acts" published by University of Michigan Press"
Jerome Taylor: A Pitt professor's legacy of uplifting Black students
As Black students protested to make the University of Pittsburgh more equitable, one professor saw a chance to uplift Black students. More than 50 years later, the school is still learning from...
Yolanda Covington-Ward publishes new edited volume, Embodying Black religions in Africa and its Diasporas (co-edited with Jeanette S. Jouili)
The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and transformation of...
Christel Temple is awarded the CLA Book Award for her book Black Cultural Mythology
Christel N. Temple, a professor with Pitt’s Department of Africana Studies in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has received the 2021 College Language Association's (CLA) Book...
Michele Reid-Vazquez is awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant
Michele Reid-Vazquez, associate professor of Africana Studies, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Higher Education grant for her proposed institute, “...
Michele Reid-Vazquez does Take-away Interview on NPR on Afro-Latinidad
Afro-Latinidad, Latino, Latinx and Hispanic are terms used to identify people from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. But which one is right?