March 11, 2024Award-winning journalist, broadcast host, and filmmaker Rokhaya Diallo is George Mason University’s 2024 Sojourner Truth Lecture speaker and award recipient.
March 22, 2023Kakenya Ntaiya’s life was set to follow the traditional Kenyan path of ending school early in preparation for marriage and motherhood at the age of 15, but she had a different dream.
February 23, 2023Brian P. Jones is this year’s guest speaker at the W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series. His book, “The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History,” was the focus of his talk as George Mason University’s 2023 W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series guest speaker hosted by the African and African American Studies Program.
December 6, 2022Supporting underserved graduate students focused on health equity research
February 18, 2022Charles Chavis, an assistant professor of conflict resolution and history, and director of African and African American studies, talks about his new book that explores the lynching of a young Black man in Salisbury, Md, and how understanding his story and the Black experience can help find the right ways to fight anti-Black violence today.
- Fri, 02/12/2021 - 12:38
This year’s Sojourner Truth Lecture features a conversation about the collaborative power of politics and protest in the pursuit of justice.
- Fri, 02/21/2020 - 05:00