Legendary Poet, Activist and Educator Nikki Giovanni to Help Inaugurate New Frederick Douglass Center
The center is dedicated to engaging diverse communities—both at the university and well beyond—around issues of social justice and equity.
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An obituary for Professor Carmen Balthrop.
Annual UMD arts extravaganza returns with immersive projections, art-making workshops and outdoor music pop-ups.
Professor of musicology will direct campuswide Arts for All initiative and support programming in the College of Arts and Humanities.
Arts for All initiative featured in the Diamondback.
Exhibition highlights overlooked Black artists in American artistic tradition.
New initiative expands offerings; unites arts, STEM and social justice.
The $100k grant supports the development of user-friendly, open-source software to produce high-quality digital transcriptions of printed texts.
Visiting Professor Scott Lasensky writes for The Forward.
The new Netflix series portrays a chair of a department at a moment when the position has never been more demanding and the humanities are at an inflection point, writes Amanda Bailey.
Literary historian chronicles Frederick Douglass’ disillusionment with Andrew Johnson.