“When I was a Master’s student, I made a discovery in the digitized archives. I found records of Henry Tutt, a Black man who was advocating for Black voting rights and petitioning for a name …
Spring 2025 Newsletter
Night at the Theater
On March 6, 2025, students and faculty from the Department of African American Studies came together to attend a performance of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, a University Theater production directed by Baron Kelly. Sixty-eight …
Collaging life
A conversation with Dr. Quanda Johnson Quanda Johnson’s personal and professional journey resists a single definition. “I am a collage,” she says simply. “I am collaging my life together.” When she speaks, her language pulses …
Twenty tracks indicative of 1970
Music scholar, historian, and African American Studies lecturer Alexander Shashko turns the clock back fifty-five years: “This was supposed to be a list of ten songs from 1970, the year that the Department of African …