Established in 1970, we remain one of the largest Africana Studies departments in the world offering BA, MA and PhD degrees. We are named for scholar-activist and native son William Edward Burghardt Du Bois born and raised in Western Massachusetts.
The W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies is one of the largest such departments in the country, comprehensively offering a BA major/minor, MA, and PhD degrees for all students who wish in-depth knowledge of the history and culture of black people in the Americas and the worldwide African Diaspora.
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Dr. King birthday events
Community Music School of Springfield, Martin Luther King Jr. Family Services, DREAM Studios, Springfield College, and Focus Springfield present “The Dream Is Calling You,” Springfield’s annual citywide Dr. King Day Celebration. This year’s re-imagined virtual event will feature hundreds of ...
Remembering former #WEBDDAFRO faculty member Max Roach via Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka–Max Roach’s biographer and acclaimed poet and playwright–delivered the eulogy at Roach’s funeral at Riverside Church. Baraka read the poem, “Digging Max,” that he wrote for Roach’s 75th birthday. [includes rush transcript]
Amilcar Shabazz, School Equity Task Force founder
Your life matters and your experience with the police too. Give your input at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5GVJ325
Expelled student from UMass is held in NYC bomb hoax targeting the Movement for Black Lives. Louis Shenker is a self-described white nationalist.
Louis Shenker, 22, surrendered to officers around 3 a.m. Tuesday in Brooklyn.
Boston removes statue of Lincoln with freed Black man on his knees after 141 years - Face2Face Africa
The Boston Art Commission unanimously voted to remove "The Emancipation Group" statue from the city's Park Square.
With an eye towards youth-led movements, UMass Amherst AfroAm joins the Feinberg Series to invite western Mass youth aged 18 and under to submit to Dreaming the Future, a zine for and by young people. What will the Connecticut River Valley be like in 200 years? How do you stand up for yourself or others?
Produced in collaboration with the Forbes, Jones, and Lilly Libraries, the zine will be released in February in conjunction with the Young People Fighting for Climate Justice panel: https://blogs.umass.edu/.../young-people-fighting-for.../
Find the prompts and details on how to submit (in English and Spanish) here: https://blogs.umass.edu/feinberg/dreaming-the-future/
Dreaming the future… A zine by and for young people In partnership with the 2020-2021 Feinberg Series, the Forbes, Jones, and Lilly Libraries are excited to announce a forthcoming zine about climate dreaming. All Western Massachusetts youth aged 18 and under are encouraged to submit. (Find the ...
This Boston Globe includes the video "I am a statistic" that one of our new Africana studies major appears in. He worked on it with the Mystic Valley Area NAACP branch. Go Abdi! #positive
The Mystic Valley NAACP is hoping its new video — highlighting positive statistics about young black men — goes viral.
Nearly 300 people have registered; join us https://www.reparationsforamherstma.com/upcoming-events https://www.facebook.com/839454708/videos/10158758929679709/
A Chester Davis Scholar is named! Ariana Vazquez #WEBDDAFRO
Dr. Leamor Kahanov, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, is pleased to announce that Dr. E. Howard Ashford, Assistant Professor in the Africana and Latinx Studies Department, will deliver (virtually) the annual Richard Siegfried Lecture on Tuesday, December 1 at 7:00 pm. Dr. Ashford’s lecture entitled “I Am Me: Teaching Identity in the Age of Black Lives Matter and Trump” will be introduced by Dr. Elizabeth Dunn, Dean of the School of Liberal Arts, and a Q&A will follow the lecture. Register to attend.
#WEBDDAFRO with about 60 participants, Alex Carter’s dissertation defense is an international affair! #GlobalBlackStudies
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Another 1st Gen #WEBDDAFRO faculty member memorialized on the local landscape: Julius Lester #50YearsOfBlackStudies
A #WEBDDAFRO faculty member from our first decade, Johnnetta Betsch Cole is on the wall in The Mill District!
Day 3 of our #WEBDDAFRO at 50 virtual symposium is underway. Watch our livestream via youtube. Click here...
Day 2 of our W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies 50th Anniversary Virtual Symposium is live now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKNPDTp6mmo
WATCH NOW -- our Virtual Symposium is live!
The #WEBDDAFRO Virtual Symposium has begun!
*TODAY* -- Have you registered?
4:00 p.m. Welcome
McKinley Melton, Alumn Representative
James Smethurst, Interim Chair, W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies
Barbara Krauthamer, Dean, College of Humanities and Fine Arts
John McCarthy, Provost
Introduction of the Chancellor by James Smethurst, Interim Chair, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies
Kumble Subbaswamy, Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Images from the Augusta Savage Gallery
4:30–6:30 p.m. Proud and Loud Conscious to Woke Rally: Black Lives Matter
A rally comprising student and faculty founders of Black Studies at UMass Amherst and in the Pioneer Valley. Participants will discuss the student movement that resulted in establishing the Du Bois Department and Black Studies in the Valley; they also will address the politics and activism of the 1960s & 1970s and the twenty-first century connections. Audience Q & A
Proud and Loud Founders
Co-moderators: Yęmisi Jimoh and Amilcar Shabazz
https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpc--qrTwrGdWOmObwFLG7m6ZD57M4bJJM
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As we celebrate 50 Years of #WEBDDAFRO we also remember our ancestors. Today we call out RAY MILES https://milesaheadart.blogspot.com/
When the campus reopens new friendly faces will be there to greet you! Title: Helmet Mask. Date: before 1880?
Geography: Cameroon, Grassfields region.
Culture: Bamum kingdom. Medium: Wood.
Dimensions: H. 35 x W. 25 x D. 15 3/4 in.
Classification: Sculpture #WEBDDAFRO Golden Anniversary Year
Whitney Battle-Baptiste Britt Rusert Cécile Yez Adam Holmes Amilcar Shabazz John Bracey &c in Du Bois’s words
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) produced a vast body of written material - books, poems, articles, speeches, short stories, novels - during his long life. The c...
Bill Strickland joined the #WEBDDAFRO faculty in its first decade. He is the only member of the faculty who was a native son of Massachusetts. Born in Roxbury, he attended Boston Latin School and Association and then Harvard (shown here outside the dorm he lived in his first year). After earning his BA in Psychology (studying the work of Frantz Fanon), he led Harvard's NAACP chapter and was a "Lecturer in Race Relations." He invited foot soldiers in Mississippi's Black Liberation Movement like Sister Fannie Lou Hamer to speak at Harvard and she invited him to come down South. From 1963-1967, he was the Executive Director of the Northern Student Movement (NSM) working with Jesse Gray on the Harlem rent strikes, introducing Ms. Hamer & Malcolm X &c. He was visiting lecturer of black history at Columbia U. replacing Eric Foner, 1968-69, while vice-chair of the advisory committee for the CBS-TV series "Black Heritage," the first major documentary series on black history in television history. His first visit to UMass happened in 1971, while he was building the Institute of the Black World in Atlanta, 1969-1973. He became a faculty member in the Du Bois Department in 1973.
Register at https://umassamherst.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6JAG41oOFGInSNT
National Council for Black Studies
Legislative Update: President Amilcar Shabazz interviews California Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber
Dear AfroAm majors,
The deadline for the Chester Davis Scholarship is this upcoming Thursday, October 15th! If you are a junior or senior and have a 3.0 GPA or higher, please apply! Scholarship is open to both primary and secondary majors.
Full application guidelines and link to application, here: https://www.umass.edu/afroam/news/chester-davis-scholarship-afroam-majors
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to be in touch.
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Mark your calendars for October 18-24 and join us for spirited, safe, virtual events as part of #UMassHomecoming @HOME!
Bring your best school spirit, cover your social feed in maroon, and call your friends to celebrate together! 🎉🙌
▶️ View the full schedule and REGISTER NOW!
PAHMUSA-The Pan African Historical Museum USA
I would like to thank those of you that came to the International Underground Railroad Event. We had an awesome time, especially seeing the Native American Flag raising...
I would also like to give kudos to the character actors that participated; Janine Fondon (Josephine St Pierre) Maris Furlow (Ida B. Wells) Aprell May (Mary Church Terrell) Gloria May Peeler (Gentle Running Deer) Cynthia St Juste (Sanite Belair) The Mocha Org. and others.
And to the Performers, you did wonderful: Terry Reynolds , Dr Amilcar Shabazz , Bonita Oliver , Amber Peterson , Maurice Taylor.
The African Drummers Winston and Trinny be on the lookout for the next on.... COMING SOON!
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Telling OUR Stories: The Latinx Diaspora
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
5:30pm
Zoom link: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/97529272066?pwd=ZFgxa2FtQjBKVlRqYTVETVFlbEZUUT09
Please join our panelists as they share their stories and discuss the history of the Latinx Diaspora and Indigenous people.
Guest Speakers: Ellen Correa, Lecturer Civic Engagement & Service Learning (CESL) and Isabel Espinal, Reference Services Librarian for Afro American Studies, Native American Indian Studies and Information Literacy and Agustin Lao Montes, Associate Professor of Sociology and Afro-American Studies
National Council for Black Studies
This episode in the Democracy Unchained conversation series faces the topic of America’s original sin of slavery and discusses reparations for Black Americans as an important part of rebuilding democracy in the U.S. Bakari Kitwana talks with Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharris, Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival co-chair; Dr. Amilcar Shabazz, NCBS President & UMass Amherst AfroAm Professor; Deadria Farmer-Paellman, Executive Director, Restitution Study Group; Betty Lyons, President and Executive Director, American Indian Law Alliance; and, Dr. Ron Daniels, Convener, National African American Reparations Commission - NAARC.
May all be safe and those that are sick have a speedy recovery
AMHERST — COVID-19 cases at the University of Massachusetts continued to climb over the weekend, with the university reporting 23 more over the weekend.That brings to 121 the number of those connected with UMass who have tested positive since Aug. 6....
Difficult Dialogues TV
Today, 4PM EST, join us live for our 1st Friday Reparations Dialogue mobilizing awareness of state-level reparations work. Invited guests include California Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber who just won a huge victory in passing the 1st state reparations law! Also, Massachusetts Senator Jo Comerford and Representative Bud L. Williams, State Representative Mindy Domb and former representative Ben Swan will talk about what's happening in the Bay State. Please share to your networks this live event. #ReparationsNow
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The 13 infected students, who live off campus, “are known to have socialized together, and a number of them attended a party together,” UMass said in a statement.
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“Hip Hop as a Form of Resistance” UMass Amherst #WEBDDAFRO panel at #NCBS2020
A poetic tribute to Max Roach and a daughter’s reflection: Sonia Sanchez and Maxine Roach
#WEBDDAFRO Max Roach & his Legacy — a song by Maya Cunningham accompanied by Ben
#ASALH2019 Pop-Up Talk “Woodson Works: Confederate Statues, African American Terror and the Black Exodus Northward” with Kali Holloway of “The Make it Right” Project
#ASALH2019 session no. 70: Living Black Power, Learning Black Power
Wayne Smith at the Augusta Savage Gallery
The Afro-Am Undergraduate Council invites you to the next Classic Black Movies night, 9/18 at 7pm in the Underground Theater. “Friday” with Ice Cube & Chris Tucker is cued up. #WEBDAFRO #BlackMovies
Day 1--Winding down at the big tent with Lloyd Henley
#JOUVERT2019 at UMass Amherst with UMass SoCA Haitians, Bajans, Trinis, Jamaicans, Borinquens, NewAfrikans, everybody’s here!
CCEBMS Legacy Event #50YearsofBlackStudies
”Wake Up: Reflections on our past, Envisioning our future” Chair Panel Kiara Hill (moderator) #50YearsofBlackStudies
”Wake Up: Reflections on our past, Envisioning our future” Alumni Panel w/Mtali Shaka Banda, Shawn Alexander, Sid Ferreira, Judiye Al Bilali & Bianki Torres (moderator) #50YearsofBlackStudies
#Speak2Me of Rivers w/Stephanie Uku Shonekan, Alexis Callender, kara lynch & Kiara Hill
Springfield #BlackHistoryMatters Workshop with Dr. Lucie Lewis and Dr. Demetria Shabazz at PAHMUSA-The Pan African Historical Museum USA, UMass Center at Springfield
Poetry Night in the Underground Theater
Collaborative event with Student Bridges UMass Amherst, but before that it's all about Sigge Dimanche!
#WEBDDAFRO Workshop Series with the Du Bois Center and AAIHS
The Inaugural Baldwin Lecture
Reception before the Baldwin Lecture
The 20th Reunion of the Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage session: “The Genesis of the Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage & the Spirit of Howard Thurman”—Ingrid Askew introduces #WEBDDAFRO’s Prof. John Bracey (opening)
#WEBDDAFRO welcomes the pilgrims who retraced the journey of the slave trade as they reunite 20 years later
A Celebration with Words (part II)-- Invited to read: Edward Bruce Bynum, Elijah El-Bisi, Jehann El-Bisi, Feyla McNamara, Wally Swist, Joyce White Deer Vincent, Ron Welburn, Willie Wheeler; hosted by John Bracey
Day #3 Final Plenary of #CasteRace2018 conference with Michaeline Crichlow and Anand Teltumbde; chaired by Leonce Ndikumana
#CasteRace2018 conference Day #2 plenary #3 on Violence: Chandraiah Gopani, Toussaint Losier, Keisha-Khan Perry, with Svati Shah as session chair.
The W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies was officially established in 1970, and has grown to become one of the largest Africana Studies departments in the country. We offer BA, MA, and PhD degrees for all students who wish in-depth knowledge of the history and culture of black people in the Americas and the worldwide African Diaspora. We are located on the campus of the University of Massachusetts in New Africa House. From its beginning our department has been named for the scholar-activist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (/duːˈbɔɪs/ doo-BOYSS;[1][2] February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963), the sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in the western part of the Bay State, Du Bois attended Fisk University, and went on to complete graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. He became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University and was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
Du Bois is buried in Ghana, where he died on August 27, 1963, in the capital of Accra at the age of 95. The following day, at the March on Washington, speaker Roy Wilkins asked the hundreds of thousands of marchers to honor Du Bois with a moment of silence. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, embodying many of the reforms Du Bois had campaigned for his entire life, was enacted almost a year after his death.
Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah gave Du Bois a state funeral and his former home has been dedicated the W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture in his memory. The UMass library is named for Du Bois and holds his collected papers. The department counts among its former faculty his wife Shirley Graham Du Bois, who worked here before she died in 1977; as well as his stepson David Graham Du Bois. Over the years we have been part of the stewardship of his boyhood homesite just outside of his hometown of Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
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