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 […]
Read More →Black Women Giving Birth in Prison Face Surveillance Disguised as Medical Care
Read More →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 […]
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