New Student Union leaders pledge to address inequity.

Rafia Zafa, author of the new book “Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning,” discusses her own culinary journey and the ways African-American authors — in cookbooks, novels, poems, memoirs and how-to guides — have quite literally written their way to freedom.

The 2019 African Film Festival will run from March 29th through March 31st in Brown Hall, on Washington University's Campus. The festival is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.

The award is granted annually to an individual who has made significant career contributions to advancing awareness of racial and ethnic issues in criminology and criminal justice.

Sponsored by the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of African American Life & History, the prize is awarded annually for an outstanding book on the African diaspora.

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Geoff Ward, the newly appointed associate chair of African and African-American Studies, discusses the history of the department, his work on legacies of racial violence, and the future of AFAS.

John Baugh Discusses Code Switching in St. Louis Public Radio Interview.

In his paper entitled 'Language contact and Swahili hybridity in Nairobi from the early 1900s to Unbwogable,' Mutonya explores undocumented Swahili varieties spoken by marginalized Nairobians.

Jeffrey McCune is featured in Newsweek.