We at Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre would like to welcome Shariffa Ali, Guest Director in Residence!

The Brown University Book Award is presented to an outstanding junior, at annual school book award presentations across the country. This year the Brown University Book Award will be Skinfolk by Matthew Pratt Guterl, L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies at Brown University.

The Department of Africana Studies, Center for Digital Scholarship, and Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University invite applications for the 2024-2026 International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship in Black Digital Humanities.

The Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora (Miami MoCAAD) is set to revolutionize the Soul Basel and Miami Art Week with its groundbreaking documentary and digital exhibition, “This Life: Black Life in the Time of Now.” Spearheading this venture is the distinguished Jamaican scholar and curator, Prof. Tony Bogues.

The Healing Stage by Prof. Lisa Biggs has been awarded the 2023 Errol Hill Award by the American Society for Theatre Research.

NCA’s annual awards were bestowed on several distinguished members at the NCA 109th Annual Convention in National Harbor, Maryland. Prof. Lisa Biggs was honored at this ceremony.