The Lewis Center for the Arts, in collaboration with other University departments, offers two artist fellowship opportunities. Both are designed to support artists, in all artistic disciplines, who de...

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Launched by the African American Intellectual History Society, Global Black Thought will feature essays on Black ideas, theories, and intellectuals from authors in a wide-range of history and the soci...

Welcome to “Phoning It In,” a gameshow I made up because I am tired and busy but also like to learn about new books! I’m claiming to have made up this game, but if you’ve ever showed up for class wit...

A rethinking of African American religious history that focuses on the development and evolution of Africana spiritual traditions in Jim Crow New Orleans.   When Zora Neale Hurston traveled to New Orl...

The number of dead in a roof collapse at an iconic nightclub in the Dominican Republic surged to 218, an official said.

Join the Crossroads Project for a discussion from leading scholars in Africana Religious traditions and Materiality. What have we done, what should we be doing, and what is the future of the field? Ch...

Materiality and its manifestations illuminate the study of Africana religious traditions. Scholars from Religious studies, Africana studies, Anthropology and History will meet to discuss the various w...

Mati Diop's dynamic film brings a dazzling sense of imagination to vital issues of self-determination and restitution. Amplifying voices from beyond the walls of international museums, this spellbindi...

“The Mixtape as Maroon” – An Original #BlackEphemera Mix by Kwame Phillips “What does it mean to think of Black ephemera—random, inconsequential Blackness—as fugitive archival matter, as marooned arc

With funding from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Luce-AAR Advancing Public Scholarship Grant program provided grants to support scholars of religion working to engage publics in innovative ways, throu...

Leading Edge Fellowships place recent humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations committed to promoting social justice in their communities.

The Wenner-Gren Foundation seeks proposals for its new Seminar program.

The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Spelman College invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor. We seek an outstanding teacher/scholar whose ...

Coltrane, a jazz virtuoso who devoted much of her life to a spiritual journey, is a beacon for today’s artists. An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why.

The Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina Wilmington invites applicants for an Assistant Professor in Religion position in the area of American Religions, Race, Soc...

On Octavia Butler, the L.A. fires, and the uses and misuses of the things that cannot be recovered.