Campus news

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.

UMD student, Astrid Tagne, begins bag business to highlight Cameroonian culture.

Leaders and renowned experts in public health, all of whom are women of color, join panel organized by SPH master's students.

The inaugural report released by The 1856 Project documents UMD's ties to enslaved families and the Underground Railroad.

Learn about the various events taking place at UMD during Black History Month.

A Mellon Foundation Grant expands Black digital humanities at UMD.

Dean Stephanie Shonekan (ARHU) co-authors new book about confronting racism in America.