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African and African American Studies

William "Sandy" Darity

July 16, 2020

A Blueprint for Reparations

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Staff and faculty recommended books to add to your summer reading list.

June 23, 2020

Books to Capture Your Attention This Summer

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PBS News Hour video to Marc Anthony Neal

June 18, 2020

Mark Anthony Neal Answers Questions about Juneteenth

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Panelists discussing racial injustice:  Mark Anthony Neal, Ben Grunwald, Adriane Lentz-Smith and James Coleman.

June 2, 2020

Duke Scholars Examine Protests and Police Conduct

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Sandy Darity relseases new study of Black middle class

May 12, 2020

Middle Class Not a Level Playing Field for Blacks, New Duke Research Finds

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Patrick Douthit and Mark Anthony Neal speaking with students in their “History of Hip Hop” class

April 23, 2020

Hip-Hop Turns 50 This Month. Here’s How Duke Studies Its Impact

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Sandy Darity, Anna Gassman-Pines, and Andrew Foster

April 14, 2020

Duke Experts on How to Help Struggling Families in The Pandemic

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Ismail White: Why So Many Black Voters Are Democrats, Even When They Aren't Liberal

February 28, 2020

Ismail White: Why So Many Black Voters Are Democrats, Even When They Aren't Liberal

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Sephora Germain is leading female contemporary Haitian dancer (one of the very few) with an international performing career, Sephora also has a local commitment to teaching in Port-au-Prince.

February 18, 2020

The Center of Black Dance

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A page of Omar ibn Said’s autobiography, written in Arabic in 1831, and a restored, colorized portrait of Omar ibn Said, right, around the 1850s. Page courtesy of LOC; Photo courtesy of Yale University Library

February 13, 2020

The Mystery of Omar Ibn Said

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“One of the reasons that we wrote Stay Woke is because we believe that most people want to do well but need guidance toward that— and that’s not just white folk, but black folk too.” — Candis Watts Smith, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University

February 10, 2020

Said@Duke: Candis Watts Smith on Making Black Lives Matter

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Said@Duke: "You cannot tell black history without telling American-Muslim history, and you cannot tell either history without women." - Dr. Jamillah Karim

February 5, 2020

Said@Duke: Jamillah Karim on Black History

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Liddy Grantland, pictured in Duke Chapel

February 5, 2020

Duke Senior’s Sermon Feb. 23 to Find Equality Before God

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Mark Anthony Neal discusses the relationship between black comedy and activisim

February 4, 2020

Dick Gregory and the History of Black Comedy and Activism

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Montage of black faculty members in Trinity College

January 24, 2020

Five Decades of African American Studies at Trinity

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January 6, 2020

Harriet Tubman's Life in Pictures

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