Join the virtual AAPHI (African American Public Humanities Initiative) Fall 2024 Lecture. Monday, November 4th, 5:00 pm EST with guest speaker Wilson Kwamogi Okello, Ph.D., a transdisciplinary artist and scholar whose work engages Black critical theories to advance research on knowledge production and human development. His current research centers Blackness […]
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AAPHI Scholar Hannah Grantham has been named Director of the Delaware Historical Society’s Jane and Littleton Mitchell Center for African American Heritage. Delaware Historical Society Names New Director of the Jane and Littleton Mitchell Center for African American Heritage
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Congratulations to TK Smith, one of the 2024 recipients of the Rabkin Prize. The Rabkin Prize celebrates the creative and intellectual contributions of today’s arts writers and comes with a $50,000 unrestricted award. Announcing the 2024 Rabkin Prize Winners
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As a Mellon Fellow, Dr. Barnes will work with Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, and the community in re-framing the nation’s origin story, acknowledging, and honoring the contributions of all Americans. The research will focus on the impact—and the legacies—of people of African descent on nation-building during the revolutionary […]
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Former UD AAPHI Director Colette Gaiter continues to write on Black design–until recently, a woefully underrepresented topic, which reflected the omission from “mainstream” [white] design practice. As in other disciplines, scholars understand the need to look beyond the traditional sources to find and reveal neglected or ignored Black designers. […]
Read More →TK Smith Joined Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum as Curator, Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora, ‘He Uses Art as Portal for Understanding Our Histories’
Read More →The National Museum of African American History and Culture, to present a vibrantly illustrated exploration of 400 years of African American musical culture. 2022 AAPHI Scholar Hannah Grantham will be one of the featured writers in the forthcoming publication Musical Crossroads: Stories Behind the Objects of African American Music (release […]
Read More →AAPHI Scholar Kelli Barnes will be one of the featured speakers at The Needle’s I: Stitching Identity conference, October 6 & 7, 2022 at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library. Her talk, entitled Searching for Africans and Their Needlework in the World History of Embroidery, will occur at 10:00 am on Thursday, […]
Read More →The founders of the Instagram page @BlkGirlNailfies; Hana Javelle, Imani Aldridge, and AAPHI scholar Tyra A. Seals, speak with Allure Magazine about carving out a digital space for Black women’s nail art and fostering community online. BlkGirlNailfies Is Re-Centering Black Women in the World of Nail Art
Read More →In December of 2020, AAPHI scholar Denise Burgher, and Dr. Shirley Moody-Turner, associate professor of English and African American studies and co-director of the Center for Black Digital Research at Penn State, talked about the contributions of black women to the suffrage movement and the role of black women in […]
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