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“Colors of Old College” (Old College Galleries, February 4 – June 4, 2025) and the “Colors, Land and Building: Old College and Delaware (Recitation Hall Gallery, February 17 – March 29, 2025.)  This immersive exhibition promises to be a vibrant celebration of the rich history and cultural legacy of Old […]

Sunday, March 2, 2025, AAPHI Scholar and cultural heritage artist Qiaira Riley will be a featured presenter at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, during their Family Festival: Drawn to Stories. The line up is as follows: Family Festival: Drawn to Stories Sunday, March 2, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Once […]

Library Company of Philadelphia, in partnership with 1838 Black Metropolis and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania present: Black Philadelphia in the 18th and 19th Centuries Conference Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | February 20th-22nd, 2025 AAPHI Scholar Darby Witek to present on Friday, February 20th: Joining […]

“The Radical Jackie Ormes” Curated by Britney Henry, PhD Candidate in English & African American Public Humanities Initiative Scholar February 1 – 28, 2025 University of Delaware, Morris Library, First Floor (Room 115) Jackie Ormes is considered the first Black woman cartoonist to reach a national audience, publishing in the Pittsburgh […]

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 […]

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

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  

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 […]

  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.  […]