Yale University announced Friday that it would offer a new course on Beyoncé’s “breakthroughs and innovations" in the music ...

and traditions in both familiar and unfamiliar texts and moments in 1960s African American literature and culture. It interrogates declarations of race, authenticity, personal and collective ...

Carter's political and cultural impact will be studied in a new college course coming to Yale University next year.

and at Bridge Projects and the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. Crawley is the author of “Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility,” (Fordham University Press) an ...

A show at the New York Historical looks beyond the runway to stitch together an overview of practical women’s clothing.

African contemporary dance is a powerful and evolving art form that has captured the world's attention. By fusing traditional ...

Hence, I explore the European/American epic aesthetics and nation ... In Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson, edited by Isiah Lavender III. Reprint, from African American Review 33.4 (1999): 589-601.

African American studies and music professor Daphne Brooks will teach “Beyoncé Makes History: The History, Culture, Theory, ...

Though global superstar Beyoncé was a Houston, Texas baby, a new effort on the East Coast is spreading knowledge about her transcendental influence in both the American political and music scene. Yale ...

Taught by Daphne Brooks, a professor of African American studies and music ... and really granular engagements with Black ...

Students in Professor Daphne Brooks’ course will dive into archives and visual albums to understand Beyoncé’s influence on ...