Healing Roots tells the tale of how Bajan (Barbadian) women use native plants and herbs—bush medicine as it is termed in Barbados—to help heal the body and the nation. It speaks to how these women continue African culture through their use of plants and asks us to think about what is lost...

The lives of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and El Hajj Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X) are often presented as examples of diverging strategies and philosophies. Recent work by Peniel E. Joseph, The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., posits new understanding about the...

Meagan Sylvester (Cipriani College of Labour and Cooperative Studies, Trinidad and Tobago), Brigitta Johnson (University of South Carolina), and Michelle Scott (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) have a round table discussion on the healing aspects of Black music. Explore how music in the Diaspora entertains, uplifts, and activates communities toward self-awareness, self-love, self-care, and self-advocacy. Presented by Africana Studies in celebration of Black History Month. Register at https://tinyurl.com/532kp74s

Ever wonder what academic publishers may be looking for in a good book? Need help with how to craft a manuscript proposal? Have questions on whether your book should go to a "trade" publisher? Join Africana Studies as Debbie Gershenowitz, Executive Editor at UNC Press provides the nuts and bolts to a successful manuscript proposal. Register at https://tinyurl.com/2p8zz6ee

Join us for a roundtable discussion on the contours of self-care as a radical practice by Black women with our guests Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Stephanie Evans, Aimee Meredith Cox, Cynthia Greenlee and Kay Whitehead. Register at https://tinyurl.com/2mkcx56f