The Imaginary of Disobedience is a one-day workshop to be held at Duke University on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 19, 2026. The workshop aims to conceptualize the lineaments ...

** 6-6:30pm, Curators’ Walk-Through ** Registration for this event is kindly requested (but not required) at: duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1AEc1aSoAScnoge Join us for the closing reception of “Disobedient Subjects: Bombay 1930-31,” an exhibition ...

Join us as we welcome a powerful new exhibit to the Franklin Gallery@History. “Pvt. Booker T. Spicely, 34, was a U.S. Army private on active duty who was killed in ...

The FHI Black Feminist Working Group presents a screening of the creative documentary A Mother Apart (2024), followed by a hands-on workshop wherein participants will get the opportunity to respond ...

Join us for this discussion guided by Duke Professor Joseph Winters about why he loves to teach James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time. Free copies of the book are available ...

Join us for the opening of “Disobedient Subjects: Bombay 1930 – 31,” a new exhibition presented by Duke Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) and The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, ...

Five interdisciplinary scholars will respond to Jarvis C. McInnis’s groundbreaking new book, Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South, wherein he establishes Booker T. Washington’s ...

Duke Human Rights Center’s Rights! Camera! Action! Series presents a screening of When I Say Africa, a documentary which “turns the lens on the West’s stereotypes of Africa from the ...

Join us for a roundtable discussion of Sinners (2025), Ryan Coogler’s latest film. Duke professor Mark Anthony Neal will moderate this discussion with fellow professors Franklin Cason and Joseph Winters ...

The Black Feminist Working Group, co-convened by Jazmin Maço (Duke University, PhD, Art History) and Rukimani PV (Duke University, PhD, Literature), will be hosting the 2025 Black Feminist Graduate Symposium, ...

The Black Feminist Working Group, co-convened by Jazmin Maço (Duke University, PhD, Art History) and Rukimani PV (Duke University, PhD, Literature), will be hosting the 2025 Black Feminist Graduate Symposium, ...

DAHOMEY (Mati Diop, 2024, 67 min, France/Senegal/Benin, French w/ English subtitles, DCP) — Discussion to follow with the film’s director, Mati Diop, in conversation with Prof. Felwine Sarr (Romance Studies) ...

Jazz and Gender Justice A conversation with Terri Lyne Carrington, Camila Cortina, Anthony Kelley, and Brenda Sisane As we cross into the second century of the music’s history, jazz has ...

Music has for centuries been at the heart of the expression of African descendent people globally. In this panel, the eminent Puerto Rican composer and saxophonist David Sánchez – a ...

Screening as part of the 2025 French Film Festival Jan 30 – Feb 13, 2025 THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, 2024, 75 min, USA, English and French w/English ...

An event featuring South African photojournalist, Paul Weinberg, on his upcoming retrospective called “Between the Cracks.” He will tell the story of his journey and journeys that took him to ...

Duke History invites you to the grand opening of “Slavery and Freedom: Journeys Across Time and Space” featuring a talk with Indrani Chatterjee, the John L. Nau III Distinguished Professor ...

We invite you to join a screening of The Palestine Exception, a documentary directed by JAN HAAKEN and JENNIFER RUTH, followed by a panel discussion including the directors. At Duke ...

Under Plessy v. Ferguson, in the days before desegregation, southern states were able to fund the graduate education of Black students by forming separate-but-equal programs at tax-supported HBCU’s or having ...

“Vivid…[An] indelible portrait of an era when this untreatable bane killed one American every 11 minutes… [A] book that deserves reading and remembering in the pandemic age.” -The New York ...