A A P H I

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 […]

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, […]

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

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 […]

Black Women Giving Birth in Prison Face Surveillance Disguised as Medical Care

Ms. Brandi Locke, graduate student, African American Public Humanities Initiative scholar and  Colored Conventions Fellow, University of Delaware speaking at the event “Undisputed Dignity: Preserving Black Women’s History and Material Culture: A Symposium” an event held in Founders Library at Howard University. Sponsored by the Digital Production Center of the […]

Denise Burgher’s virtual submission to the Religion Society Conference in Grenada, Spain.  April 2019.  Black abolitionist conversion narrative. “Frederick Douglass, Heroic Slave and Madison Washington as the Embodied Divine.  

An interview with the the outspoken and quite busy Ethan Scott Barnett, often found passionately chatting with a wide array of people around Kingston, NY – a great interview subject as well as interesting human had been found. Thank you to Ethan for taking time and agreeing to be this […]

By Mali Collins-White, PhD student in English at the University of Delaware, and a 2018-2019 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow. This PAGE Blog Salon explores themes of citizenship, intersectional activism, and public scholarship, important topics of the upcoming Imagining America national gathering, Oct. 19-21, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois https://imaginingamerica.org/2018/09/28/black-birthing-history-imagined-at-the-site-of-the-body/  

The Library Company of Philadelphia 2018-2019 Research Fellows have been announced, and include AAPHI Scholar Denise Burgher as the long-term Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellow.  Denise Burgher, PhD Candidate in English Literature, University of Delaware, Redeeming the Banished Spirit: Naming the Theological Praxis in Nineteenth-Century Black […]