Please join us for the latest live webinar in our series highlighting Special Collections at Princeton University Library, focusing on black speculative fiction, also called Afro-futurism, of Octavia E. Butler.

Eddie Glaude Jr. and Cornel West discuss the enduring legacy of James Baldwin and lessons from his work for confronting racism today.

This event is co-sponsored by Labyrinth Books

To order Glaude’s Begin Again and other books by Eddie Glaude and Cornel West from…

The Program in Theatre is creating space for Princeton African American Studies alum 

As COVID-19 has swept across the United States, it has unmasked and amplified existing racial inequities.  Rampant fear and misinformation has provoked a wave of discrimination, harassment, and hate targeting those of Chinese and Asian descent.  The disease has also had a disproportionate toll on historically marginalized…

A conversation between Shiraz Bayjoo and Anna Arabindan-Kesson

Join NYU Washington, DC in welcoming NYU Tisch'sDeb Willis and Ellyn Toscano with Cheryl Finley of Spelman's AUC Art Collective for this special DC Dialogues program on Women and Migration(s)webinar. This event is also sponsored by NYU's Office of Global…

Since his selection as Princeton’s first black valedictorian, Nicholas Johnson has spoken eloquently about the importance of role models and mentors to his success at the University. In this conversation, The Power of Mentors: Blazing Paths for Underrepresented Minorities in STEM, Johnson will explore this topic in greater depth with:

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Join the Department of African American Studies as we virtually celebrate the achievements of our 2020 graduates.

Princeton University will hold a virtual Commencement ceremony to honor the GREAT Class of 2020 on Sunday, May 31, 2020, 1 p.m. ET. Many of the University’s academic departments, programs, institutes, centers, and student organizations also are 

Join us in celebrating Princeton's Class of 2020! The Carl A. Fields Center's Cultural Graduation videos will be released this Saturday, May 30, 2020 at 11 am EST on CAF's website.

The global spread of COVID-19 has laid bare the ravages of systemic racism and inequity. Dr. Ruha Benjamin situates this data within the broader context of social inequity and the longer history of scientific and medical racism. After Dr. Benjamin's presentation, commenting will be Dr. Nicole Fleetwood and Dr. Monica McLemore, who will engage…

Join us Thursday, May 14, 2020, for a screening and Twitter discussion of the final hour of the PBS documentary, Reconstruction: After the Civil War (2019). The turn of the century is known as the "nadir" of race relations, when white supremacy was ascendant and African Americans faced both physical and psychological oppression…

Nicole Fleetwood's new book is a powerful document of the inner lives and creative visions of men and women rendered invisible by Americas prison system. We invite you out for a conversation between her and acclaimed scholar and critic Ruha Benjamin.

More than two million people are currently behind bars in the…

In our next Right to Health Web-In "Racial Capitalism and the COVID-19 Catastrophe,” we hope to unpack what’s led to the appalling inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes along many social fault lines, but perhaps most perniciously along the lines of race in America.

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In the face of COVID-19, historians of public health, nursing, and medicine come together to reflect on past epidemics and their implications for how we confront today’s unfolding crisis.

Those who study epidemics and pandemics in the past see powerful echoes in the present crisis. In the past as today, families and societies…

As our media-saturated culture exhausts every possible angle of consuming race, a new generation of scholars, activists, and artists has turned to investigating the structuring conditions of how blackness is experienced in everyday life.

As our media-saturated culture exhausts every possible angle of consuming race, a new generation of scholars, activists, and artists has turned to investigating the structuring conditions of how blackness is experienced in everyday life.

As our media-saturated culture exhausts every possible angle of consuming race, a new generation of scholars, activists, and artists has turned to investigating the structuring conditions of how blackness is experienced in everyday life.

This conference will feature prominent scholars who work on abolition, anti-slavery politics, capitalism, and slavery, and will attempt to revisit the classic questions about the relationship between the marketplace and abolition in light of the new historiographical trends.

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We explore what it means to “do” Black Studies in practice-based fields.

As our media-saturated culture exhausts every possible angle of consuming race, a new generation of scholars, activists, and artists has…

What is religion’s place in the academy today? Are religious perspectives viable in a pluralistic academic setting? In his lucid and penetrating essay Religion in the University," prominent philosopher of religion Nicholas Wolterstorff draws on authors ranging from Max Weber and John Locke to Ludwig Wittgenstein and Charles Taylor to argue that religious orientations and voices do have a home in modern academic discussion. He also offers a sketch of what that home should look like. This author-meets-critics panel discussion is the inaugural event for Princeton’s new Project in Philosophy and Religion (https://pppr.princeton.edu). Reception to follow.

The Department of English has Class Day Prizes for Creative Writers! All undergraduate students are welcome to enter poetry, essays and short stories for these awards. Prizes will be awarded at the end of the term. To submit a prize entry, click on the prize descriptions below or visit our website.

As our media-saturated culture exhausts every possible angle of consuming race, a new generation of scholars, activists, and artists has turned to investigating the structuring conditions of how blackness is experienced in everyday life.

Students in Professor Anna Arabindan-Kesson’s fall 2019 course, “Seeing to Remember: Representing Slavery Across the Black Atlantic,” curated this exhibition, which includes photographs recently acquired by the Museum to expand its engagement with the visual history of slavery in the United States.
We think of the artworks assembled here…

Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Presents: Why Muslims Wear Bow Ties — Commentator: Imani Perry, Princeton University

A special public debate between members of the Princeton Debate Panel and Rikers Debate Project Alumni recorded by the New Yorker! The Rikers Debate Project is a volunteer run organization that teaches competitive debate skills to current and formerly incarcerated debaters across the country.

As our media-saturated culture exhausts every possible angle of consuming race, a new generation of scholars, activists, and artists has turned to investigating the structuring conditions of how blackness is experienced in everyday life.

A conversation about the 2020 Election with LaTosha Brown and Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., moderated by Imani Perry.

In this lecture, Dr. Jones analyzes how federal lawmakers, as overseers of the congressional workplace, retreat from the very principles they promulgate in federal workplace law, and alternatively, maintain a workplace that is above the law.

The C.K. Williams Reading…

The Program in Visual Arts presents a day-long symposium centered on the work of William Greaves, a key figure in American filmmaking. This symposium shares Greaves’ work with a new generation and gives access to some of his films that have rarely been screened. The events, organized by artists Fia…

One of the most acclaimed music documentaries of all time, Say Amen, Somebody is George Nierenberg’s masterpiece — a joyous, funny, deeply emotional celebration of African American culture, featuring the father of Gospel, Thomas A. Dorsey (“Precious Lord, Take My Hand”); its matron, Mother Willie Mae Ford Smith; and earth-shaking…

Artist Hugh Hayden explores history, race and the creation of the America we know today through a series of site-responsive installations at [email protected], the Princeton University Art Museum’s gallery space in downtown Princeton. In this talk, Hayden will join Princeton Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu, who specializes in African and African Diasporic art history and theory, for a conversation about Creation Myths on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 5:30 p.m. in 50 McCosh Hall, followed by a reception at the Museum.

Caste matters, and not just in South Asia. This discussion will examine casteist and racist logics of oppression and discrimination, and explore possibilities of global solidarity across social justice movements. The event features Suraj Yengde, author…

As our media-saturated culture exhausts every possible angle of consuming race, a new generation of scholars, activists, and artists has turned to investigating the structuring conditions of how blackness is experienced in everyday life.

Twenty years after the publication of his foundational first book, Dr. Glaude reflects on the intellectual currents shaping the book and how they have informed his subsequent scholarly work and his public interventions.

Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts presents The Toni Morrison Conversations — Artists Reflect on Toni Morrison’s Gifts to Life, Art and Culture - Anna Deavere Smith and Marlon James join Tracy K. Smith in the second in a series of Princeton Atelier events featuring artists engaging with themes, questions and possibilities relevant to the work and legacy of writer Toni Morrison

This talk examines the visual relationship between the cotton trade and the representation of the black body in American culture, using historical case studies and contemporary art. Juxtaposing contemporary interventions with historical moments, it examines how cotton materially influenced the way black bodies were seen,…

The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) administers a program aimed at facilitating summer international research for the senior thesis. These fellowships are available to students working in any discipline who are about to begin the second semester of their junior year on campus, and are interested in…

As our media-saturated culture exhausts every possible angle of consuming race, a new generation of scholars, activists, and artists has turned to investigating the structuring conditions of how blackness is experienced in everyday life.

The Arts Council of Princeton will host an exhibit of pieces commissioned from “The Spirit of Truth-Seeking I,” in which Being Human invited local artists using any medium to capture the Friday, October 11 conversation among Princeton…

For much of the 20th century, incarcerated individuals were exploited by medical researchers. In an enlightening talk, Allen Hornblum, a criminal justice expert and author of Acres of Skin, and Yusef Anthony, a formerly incarcerated man who was repeatedly subjected to medical experimentation, will present this sordid history and take questions on this once widespread and disturbing American practice. This event will be held on Tuesday, December 3rd at 4:30 p.m. in McCormick 101 (Architecture Building), and is generously sponsored by the Princeton Progressives.

Dr. Yusef Salaam is a member of the exonerated five (featured on the Netflix series ‘When They See Us’), a group of black and Latino teens falsely convicted of the brutal attack and rape of a young…

The Toni Morrison Conversations – Artists Reflect on Toni Morrison’s Gifts to Life, Art and Culture.

Tanisha C. Ford is an award-winning writer, cultural critic, and historian, and a former Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies at Princeton. Ford is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History at the University of Delaware, where she teaches courses on Black feminism, fashion and beauty, movements for social justice, youth culture, and material culture.

It is an honor to invite you to an event with the renowned photographer, documentarian, and activist Steve Shapiro, who will be discussing the illustrated version of Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, to which he contributed the photographs, with Eddie Glaude. Glaude's eagerly awaited book on Baldwin will be out…

During an impromptu trip to Accra, Ghana, Wilglory Tanjong ‘18 built the African Hustle Series. The Series is an online media platform that showcases the businesses young Africans are building across…