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October 19, 2021

Oronde Sharif awarded $20,000 grant from the Pittsburgh Foundation's Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh Initiative for his production of Nativity: A Christmas Story.

October 19, 2021

Yolanda Covington-Ward publishes new edited volume, Embodying Black religions in Africa and its Diasporas (co-edited with Jeanette S. Jouili)

The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and transformation of...

October 19, 2021

Christel Temple is awarded the CLA Book Award for her book Black Cultural Mythology

Christel N. Temple, a professor with Pitt’s Department of Africana Studies in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has received the 2021 College Language Association's (CLA) Book...