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2025 AAS Black History Month Book List - Week 1
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With Africa World Initiative, Chika Okeke-Agulu helms an innovative hub connecting Princeton with Africa’s most creative minds
March 19, 2025
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Graduate School announces five faculty fellows in professional development innovation
March 7, 2025
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Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu (far right) attends ceremony welcoming the first cohort of master’s students enrolled in the Global Studies University Global African Studies Program (Photo courtesy of Gulf News)
Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu Joins New Sharjah Global Studies University Board of Trustees
Feb. 10, 2025
Department of Art & Archaeology
Introducing Khalil Gibran Muhammad: Princeton's New Professor of African American Studies
Jan. 16, 2025
The Department of African American Studies
Anna Arabindan-Kesson Appointed GradFUTURES Faculty Fellow for Professional Development Innovation
Dec. 10, 2024
Department of Art and Archaeology
A room with a view: Princeton students and faculty travel to Venice Art Biennale to experience Research Film Studio’s “ArtHouse Memes” exhibition
Dec. 3, 2024
Julie Clack, Office of Communications
Africa World Initiative hosts Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah in conversation and in the classroom
Nov. 12, 2024
Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications

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With Africa World Initiative, Chika Okeke-Agulu helms an innovative hub connecting Princeton with Africa’s most creative minds
March 19, 2025
Princeton University Alumni
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Student Highlight
Five Princeton seniors awarded ReachOut 56-81-06 Fellowships for public service
March 14, 2025
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Out from swamp tales, into nonbinary (magical) realism
March 10, 2025
Department of English
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Graduate School announces five faculty fellows in professional development innovation
March 7, 2025
GradFUTURES
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Alumni Highlight
Books and Literature
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Feb. 27, 2025
The Department of African American Studies
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Feb. 25, 2025
The Department of African American Studies
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2025 AAS Black History Month Book List - Week 3
Feb. 22, 2025
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[AAS Podcast] Season 3, Episode 2: "Rethinking the American Dream: Housing for All"
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The Department of African American Studies
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2025 AAS Black History Month Book List - Week 2
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The Department of African American Studies
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Books and Literature
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Brandon Johnson, Communications Specialist
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Black History Month 2025: Eddie Glaude Jr. on James Baldwin, a library Douglass Day transcribe-a-thon and more
Feb. 11, 2025
Office of Communications, Princeton University
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University News
Princeton donates laptops to two New Jersey correctional facilities to support higher education and digital literacy
Feb. 11, 2025
Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications
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University News
Millions on the African continent can't fully benefit from the AI revolution. This Princeton course aims to change that.
Feb. 11, 2025
Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications
Aaron Robertson '17 Publishes First Book, The Black Utopians
Alumni Highlight
Aaron Robertson '17 Publishes First Book, "The Black Utopians"
Feb. 10, 2025
The Department of African American Studies
Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu (far right) attends ceremony welcoming the first cohort of master’s students enrolled in the Global Studies University Global African Studies Program (Photo courtesy of Gulf News)
Faculty Highlight
Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu Joins New Sharjah Global Studies University Board of Trustees
Feb. 10, 2025
Department of Art & Archaeology
Black History Month Book List
Featured
History
2025 AAS Black History Month Book List - Week 1
Feb. 5, 2025
The Department of African American Studies
Welcome Khalil
Faculty Highlight
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Interview
Introducing Khalil Gibran Muhammad: Princeton's New Professor of African American Studies
Jan. 16, 2025
The Department of African American Studies
Art & Culture
Books by Princeton Professors Make Year-End ‘Best-Of’ Lists
Jan. 7, 2025
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The 2024 Alchemy Lecture: The City of our Dreaming
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Anna Arabindan-Kesson Appointed GradFUTURES Faculty Fellow for Professional Development Innovation
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