UMD's Geographical Sciences Department held a seminar featuring Maurice Carney, co-founder of Friends of the Congo, to discuss the history of colonization in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
A new exhibition, David C. Driskell & Friends: Creativity, Collaboration, and Friendship, opens at The Driskell Center Gallery on February 26 and runs until May 24.
The Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership Through the Humanities, a hub for humanities scholarship and programming that engages the public and works towards social justice and equity, to be inaugurated with a special event featuring world-renowned poet, educator and activist Nikki Giovanni.
UMD scholars Catherine Knight Steele and Jessica Lu (with Kevin Winstead) have authored Doing Black Digital Humanities with Radical Intentionality: A Practical Guide.