Africana Studies Program

Boston becomes experiential learning lab in Northeastern Humanities Institute

'A wild misreading’: where Netflix’s Persuasion went wrong, and what it got right

Radical Black Excellence: How Black Youth Shaped Civil Rights in Boston

Zainab Adenaike

Business Administration, BA Africana Studies Minor

The struggle for educational equality

Northeastern professor honors black history with public project in her New England hometown

New guide maps out Black history in Essex County

Think opera peaked 200 years ago? These artists want to change your mind.

“Talking Back: The Genius of bell hooks” symposium to celebrate, honor legacy of influential Black feminist scholar

A call to recover Martin Luther King Jr.’s radicalism

Voting rights take center stage on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

Associate Professor of English, Africana Studies, and Art & Design

People, Practice, Power: Digital Humanities outside the Center | Ángel Nieves

The links between Martin Luther King, Black Lives Matter, and #MeToo

How to repair a divided America? Every week, this open classroom is taking on the topic.

Martin Luther King and The Trumpet of Conscience for the 21st Century: King’s Call to Justice | Régine Jean-Charles

Democratizing Schools

New Faculty and Visiting Scholars in 2021

“Refreshing and inimitable”: Régine Jean-Charles leaves BC, heads to Northeastern

Layla Brown

Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies

What Haitians need now

Biden nominates civil rights legend Margaret Burnham for federal civil rights cold case review board

Abrielle De Veaux

Psychology, BS Africana Studies Minor Behavioral Neuroscience Minor

Régine Michelle Jean-Charles

Director of Africana Studies, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies