REMINDER!!! Come join us for our event with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein "Scientists vs. Science: Race, Gender, and Anti-Intellectualism in Science" tomorrow April 21st at 5:30pm. You can access the zoom link below! buff.ly/3dgo1zW

#DAASFACTS #94 Granville Woods was an American inventor who held more than 60 patents in the US, concentrating on trains and streetcars that helped create safe transportation systems for cities across the US!

#DAASFACTS #96 On this day in 1857, Black demonstrators from New Orleans staged a ride-in to protest segregation on New Orleans Streetcars. Their activism sparked similar protests against segregated public transportation in places like Alabama and other cities.

#DAASFACTS #98 In 1862, Mary Jane Patterson became the first African-American woman to receive a Bachelor's Degree, which she received from Oberlin College. Patterson taught in Ohio and Virginia and went on to be appointed the first Black principal at Dunbar highschool

#DAASFACTS #99 On this day in 1944, the Empress of Soul, Gladys Maria Knight was born! She is known for being a singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman, and as a seven-time Grammy award winner, she is glorified as one of the most influential artists of our time!

#DAASFACTS #100 On this day in 1972, activists Angela Davis was acquitted by an all-white jury in San Jose after representing herself in court. Davis is known today for being a prominent American political activist, author, and scholar.

#DAASFACTS #101 Ruby Dee was an American actress, poet, and playwright known for her role of “Ruth Younger” in "A Raisin in the Sun." In addition to being a well-known actress, Dee and her husband Ossie Davis became influential activists in the Civil Rights Movement.

#DAASFACTS #102 Joseph Hayne Rainey was an American politician known for being the first African American to serve in the United States House of Representative, as well as the second African American to serve in Congress!

The Department invites applications for a full-time, tenure-line faculty position in African American Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August 2022. Click here to apply: apply.interfolio.com/93060

The Departments of African American Studies and Spanish and Portuguese invite applications for the position of Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Afro-Caribbean / Afro-Latinx Studies to begin August 2022. Apply at: apply.interfolio.com/93427

***TODAY*** The Department of African American Studies invites you to... "Performing Transcendence: Improvisation, Instrumentality, and the Cultural Politics of Flow in Black Sacred Music" Tuesday, March 15th | 4:00pm - 5:30pm Featuring Dr. Melvin L. Butler

The department is excited to host a virtual book talk for Dr. LaMonda Horton-Stallings' new book, The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life. Please save the date and see below for the event details! Thursday, April 28th | 6:00pm-7:00pm EST

Congratulations to Dr. Soyica Colbert for winning the Association of Theater in Higher Education (ATHE) Outstanding Book Award! ATHE is the largest organization of Theater in Higher Ed and the Outstanding Book Award is the highest honor awarded to a book athe.org/page/22_bookaw…

Join us tomorrow!

Join us next month for our Ella Jo Baker Distinguished Lecture featuring Professor and Activist Loretta J. Ross

Our Fall 2023 symposium, "Black Studies: Imagination Unbound," will center questions about the academic and political nature of Black Studies in and outside of the U.S. Come join the discussion on September 7th and 8th.

A big congratulations to Dr. Dayo F. Gore for being named a 2023 Freedom Scholar by the Marguerite Casey Foundation! bit.ly/gorefreedomsch…