Griffin is the William B Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies.
The launch of the new podcast series, "Black Lives: In the Era of COVID 19."
A recent grant to the African American and African Diaspora Studies department will support new arts-based programming.
On October 27, 1961, King addressed a group of students, faculty, and members of the community at the McMillin Theatre (now Miller Theatre).
Columbia’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously to create the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department.
The video features a discussion with the author, Imani Perry, Princeton University, and several Columbia panelists.
Angela Davis participated in a Q&A with Kevin Fellezs, assistant professor of Music & African-American Studies at Columbia University.
Litigation plays a critical role in movements for racial justice. Across a range of cutting edge issues legal advocates work closely with movement leaders,
When Ivory Towers Were Black tells the untold story of how an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students earned degrees from Columbia University’s School of Architecture during the Civil Rights Movement.
"Modern African American literature, though it’s typically narrated as being secular, is in fact fundamentally religious,” argues Associate Professor of Religion Josef Sorett.
Columbia University is once again proud to host our annual Black History Month blood drive in honor of Dr. Charles R. Drew (College of Physicians & Surgeons 1940), named by the American Chemical Society as “one of the most important scientist of the 20th century.” A pioneering medical researcher, Drew developed methods of storing blood plasma for transfusion and organized the first large-scale blood bank in the world. In 1940, he became the first African American to earn a doctoral degree in medicine from Columbia.
Members of the Columbia Business School community reflect on the legacy of Theodora Rutherford (Class of 1924), the school’s first known African American student.