Africana Studies at UDel

Join us today at 12 noon! You do not want to miss this!

I Heart UD Giving Day! Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Support your Department of Africana Studies with a contribution to the Dr. James E. Newton Community Engaged Learning Fund!

On I Heart UD Giving Day, the University of Delaware invites you to support our fund honoring the life and legacy of Dr. James E. Newton, Emeritus Professor of Africana Studies. The Dr. James E. Newton Community Engaged Learning Fund will support community engagement, internships, and scholarships for students in Africana Studies.

Please use the link below to give your contribution.

https://givingday.udel.edu/giving-day/112282/department/119119

Please join the Department of Africana Studies in
celebration of Professor Kathryn Benjamin Golden’s
exciting new book, This Insurgent Ground: Black Women,
Marronage, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp (Fall
2026). The inaugural text in the unprecedented Black
Women’s History Series with UNC Press, this book and
conversation explores Black women’s fugitive world making
and bold resistive movements against enslavement.

Monday, May 11
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/P8GNM7ExT3mcrOIpeOa5fg

www.africanastudies.udel.edu

Happening today at 12 noon! Dear community,

On Monday, March 16, please join the Department of Africana Studies for another enlightening and empowering Black Table Talk featuring Africana faculty Professor Marshall Green, in conversation with Profs. Fontnette and Golden on his new book, A Body Made Home: They Black Trans Love. LINK below and in BIO!

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uO0WNUP_QIqIYgHGqDqTWA #/registration

Dear community,

On Monday, March 16, please join the Department of Africana Studies for another enlightening and empowering Black Table Talk featuring Africana faculty Professor Marshall Green, in conversation with Profs. Fontnette and Golden on his new book, A Body Made Home: They Black Trans Love.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uO0WNUP_QIqIYgHGqDqTWA #/registration

Listen to an amazing conversation with our department chair, Dr. Kimberly Blockett on The Black Studies podcast, which is a series of conversations examining the history of the field.

Conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, graduate students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.

Dr. Blockett has published two books - Race, Religion and Rebellion in the Nineteenth-Century Travels of Zilpha Elaw, Black Woman Evangelist (2023) and a scholarly edition of Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels and Labours of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, an American Female of Colour (2021) In this conversation, we discuss the importance of recovering lost voices in a multidisciplinary approach to history, the place of religion in Black study, and the exciting, productive, and imaginative messiness of Black Studies research.

Kimberly Blockett - Department of Africana Studies, University of Delaware Podcast Episode · The Black Studies Podcast · February 25 · 47m

Join our very own Dr. Alicia Fontnette, as she engages in conversation with Mrs. Fredrika Newton, wife of the late Revolutionary Huey P. Newton.

A broader lens | UDaily The first National Council for Black Studies graduate assistant gains deeper understanding of her culture and background

Happening TODAY! The Department of Africana Studies Presents:
Third Annual Fannie Lou Hamer Black History Month Lecture

Thursday, February 19, 2026
127 Memorial Hall
4PM – 5:30 PM

The Farmer in Us All: Lessons from Fannie Lou Hamer on Abolition and Life Making

Author, activist, healing justice practitioner, and youth advocate E. Morales-Williams, PhD will discuss abolition as a twofold process of dismantling systems of police and prisons and creating new structures of organized care invested in lifemaking and dignity.