The Scholar Affirmed
The Apollo Theater and WNYC are partnering for the sixth year to present WNYC's 13th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration, Unsung Champions of Civil Rights from MLK to Today as part of the Apollo's Uptown Hall series. WNYC's Peabody Award-winning host Brian Lehrerand Jami Floyd, local host of All Things Considered, will […]
William Edward Burghardt “W. E. B.” Du Bois was born in 1868 and became the nation’s leading social scientist on race, social inequality, African-American life and culture, and the ideology of white supremacy. He famously predicted that “the problem of the twentieth century the problem of the color line”—a prescient observation that rings truer than […]
Mary Ann and John D. Mangels Lecturer Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University February 28, 2019 | 7:30 p.m. Kane Hall, room 120 Register here! This event is free and open to the public. W.E.B. Du Bois at the Center: From Science, Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter […]
2019 Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting Theme & Call for Participants April 17-20, 2019 Chicago Hyatt Regency, Downtown in the Loop QUEERING/QUERYING BODIES Bodies are central to social life and as a consequence they have been a site of sociological inquiry for more than 30 years. More recently queer theory, methods and embodiment studies […]