Four Houston-area universities team up to elevate African and African American studies
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Prairie View A&M University s John B. Coleman Library Thursday, June 25, 2020, in Prairie View.Yi-Chin Lee, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Anthony Pinn is the founding director of the Rice University s recently launched Center for African and African American Studies. The center, launched Oct. 16, will be a hub for conversations on race, racism, the various histories and identities of the diaspora, and the “complexity of Africa’s past, present and future,” according to university officials.Rice UniversityShow MoreShow Less
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Amid a slow build of reckoning on race and racism within the past decade, Houston area colleges have emphasized the need for African and African American Studies programs. Universities such as Rice and Prairie View A&M have made strides to establish a program like that of the University of Houston, which h