On Friday, January 31st, Professor Shobana Shankar is giving a keynote for the Black Diversities seminar organized by South Carolina State University and the University of West Indies.  This virtual seminar highlights the diversity within the Black experience with a focus on cultural and political solidarities, and social histories. Register and view the full schedule here.

Rachel Otheguy’s (PhD ’16) first book, Black Freedom and Education in Nineteenth-Century Cuba is being published in January of 2025 by the University of Florida Press. In this book, Raquel Otheguy argues that Afro-descended teachers and activists were central to the development of a national education system in Cuba.