WFU Environmental Justice Summit to feature civil rights activist Rev. Ben Chavis
Environmental justice and civil rights activist Rev. Ben Chavis will deliver the keynote address at Wake Forest University’s spring Environmental Justice Summit.
Environmental justice and civil rights activist Rev. Ben Chavis will deliver the keynote address at Wake Forest University’s spring Environmental Justice Summit.
African American Studies major Chase Clark (‘26) was named a Wake Forest University 2025 Martin Luther King Jr. “Building the Dream” award winner. Clark was recognized for “working tirelessly, professionally and enthusiastically for others.”
African American Studies Professor Eshe Sherley received a Proud Shoes First Book Fellowship from the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice. The fellowship supports scholars who are developing their first full academic book manuscript in history, social justice, politics, law, race, gender, […]
Claire B. Crawford, assistant professor of Africana Political Thought in the Department of Politics and International Affairs and the Program in African American Studies, was awarded an American Political Science Association Advancing Research Grant for Early Career Scholars for her project “Hum So the […]
Corey D. B. Walker, Dean of School of Divinity, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, and Director of Program in African American Studies, was featured in Charles Blow’s recent New York Times column “On Juneteenth, Freedom Came With Strings Attached.”