A virtual conference and publication workshop for early career scholars

Lynchings in the American S

The National Book Foundation launches the third and final year of Literature for Justice, a nationwide, book-based campaign that presents an annual reading list to further investigate the carceral system and urge readers forward. The event will feature this year’s committee members Susan Burton, Natalie Diaz, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., and Piper Kerman in conversation and selected authors—Dionne Brand (Ossuaries), Nicole R. Fleetwood (Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration), Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition in Globalizing California), Sarah Haley (No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity), Kelly Lytle Hernández (City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965), and Albert Woodfox (Solitary). Moderated by Naomi Murakawa, author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America.

This event will bring together two contemporary artists, Annalee Davis and Julie Gough, in conversation with Dr. Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Art & Archaeology at Princeton University, for a discussion on how their artistic practices are invested in exploring and highlighting the medical and scientific legacies of imperialism.

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and its particularly devastating effects on Black, Indigenous and other communities of color, served to increase the urgency of research I was already undertaking to situate contemporary racialized health disparities "in the wake" of slavery, was well as to nudge it in new directions. 

The Spring 2021 Mellon Foru

In this talk, Ruha Benjamin explores a range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity -- what she terms the “New Jim Code.”

Connecting student groups with Black alumni for an opportunity to create lasting relationships

Please join us for the annual Gillett G. Griffin Memorial Lecture with Raina Lampkins-Fielder, curator of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, as well as a program officer of the Foundation’s parent organization, the Souls Grown Deep Community Partnership, which supports the communities that gave rise to the 160 artists represented in its collection.

The Prison Teaching Initiative is an all-volunteer organization based at Princeton University. PTI is committed to providing accredited college courses to incarcerated students in the state of New Jersey.

Glaude is joining us as part of the IGL-Fletcher School Conversation Series on Race, Justice and Equity.

The Prison Teaching Initiative is an all-volunteer organization based at Princeton University. PTI is committed to providing accredited college courses to incarcerated students in the state of New Jersey.

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a once-a-day HIV prevention pill, has proven to be highly effective at reducing infection, but the medication has not been widely adopted within disproportionately impacted communities. This article examines resistance to uptake by detailing how people assess their personal risk and the viability of mitigation options.

“Afro-Queer Journeys: The Intimacies of Spirit Travel in Jamaican Revival Zion Religion”

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Darren Green is a longtime Trenton activist, public speaker, and former mayoral candidate. As a part of the Organizing Stories workshop series, Green will lead a spirited workshop about the ins-and-outs of local organizing, exploring the integral role storytelling has played in his community outreach.

Moderated by Natalia Cordova *17, the director of studies at Mathey College, this panel will feature alumni discussing the connections between their social sciences concentrations and career journeys.

Spiritual Racialization: Theologies of Race and Slavery in the Colonial Atlantic World

At this panel, students and teachers from Princeton Public Schools and Princeton University undergraduates will discuss their experiences advocating for these renamings. Why did these issues matter to them? What did they learn from being part of these important events? What can others gain from their experiences? As panelists reflect on these transformational moments in their communities, we will all have a chance to look back on a critical year for racial justice advocacy in Princeton and beyond.

As part of Douglass Day 2021, this event will feature presentations by undergraduate Princeton University students on their collaborative, virtual exhibition entitled “Abolition: Then and Now.” The students put this exhibition together as part of a final project for a fall 2020 course on the writings of Frederick Douglass and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Supported by the 250th Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, the course—taught by Professor Eduardo Cadava and supported by undergraduate Shannon Chaffers ’22—encouraged the students to think about the ways in which the writings of these two towering American figures can be used as resources not only for addressing contemporary socio-political issues but also for doing political work, and especially work that goes in the direction of addressing, engaging, and perhaps even overcoming the history of racial injustice in America.

This collective is a space to gather and hold conversations around being a BIPOC* theater maker at Princeton University. We offer this collective with the intention to help center the voices and needs of BIPOC students involved in theater and to build a community that can discuss, create, celebrate, grieve, and organize together.

The African American Studies

A virtual opportunity to explore a range of certificate programs and get the inside scoop from current certificate holders!

A virtual opportunity to explore a range of certificate programs and get the inside scoop from current certificate holders!

Join us for an evening of conversations with Rep. BarbaraLee (CA-13) and other distinguished panelists to examine current efforts in the U.S. to combat and mend systemic racism in the global context!

In the wake of Covid-19 and

In the wake of Covid-19 and