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Shawn Leigh Alexander

@s_l_alexander

Professor of African & African American Studies (afs.ku.edu) & Director of Langston Hughes Center (@HughesCenter_KU) - *Op mine *RT≠ENDT

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Lights went out mid 3000m Men’s Steeplechase @ #KansasRelays and they kept going. (North end of the track had the scoreboard. The South, darkness w/ iPhone flashlights directed at the hazards.)

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Happening Now: KASC Graduate Research Workshop Thursday, April 24 In person at Bailey 109, 110 & 202. Register to attend virtually You can find more information and the GRW program. #AAASKU kasc.ku.edu/graduate-resea…

Happening Now:

KASC Graduate Research Workshop
Thursday, April 24 
In person at Bailey 109, 110 & 202.
Register to attend virtually
You can find more information and the GRW program. #AAASKU 

kasc.ku.edu/graduate-resea…
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Happening Now: Global Africa Conference Keynote #1 Nexuses of Unfreedom: The Global Geographies of Abolition in West Central Africa, Dr. Roquinaldo Ferreira #AAASKU Registration, program, & links here global.ku.edu/conference-glo…

Happening Now: Global Africa Conference

Keynote #1 
Nexuses of Unfreedom: The Global Geographies of Abolition in West Central Africa, Dr. Roquinaldo Ferreira

#AAASKU 

Registration, program,  & links here global.ku.edu/conference-glo…
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#AAASKU Prof Nicole Hodges Persley mentors as she shepherds 'Family Sideshow' through world premiere at KC Melting Pot Theatre news.ku.edu/news/article/p…

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Congratulations to Aya Fayed for defending her AAAS KU MA thesis -“God’s Will or Man’s Power?: Legal Injustice and Femicide in Egypt from an Insider Perspective.” Aya w/ members of her committee, Amal El Haimeur, Rahina Muazu (Chair), Asmaa Benbaba, & Hannah Britton. #AAASKU

Congratulations to Aya Fayed for defending her <a href="/KUafs/">AAAS KU</a> MA thesis -“God’s Will or Man’s Power?: Legal Injustice and Femicide in Egypt from an Insider Perspective.” 

Aya w/ members of her committee, Amal El Haimeur, Rahina Muazu (Chair), Asmaa Benbaba, &amp; Hannah Britton. #AAASKU
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What a great experience welcoming high school students from the continent to #AAASKU as part of the Pan-African Youth Program w/ Global Ties KC. We look forward to welcoming you back as undergraduate University of Kansas students.

What a great experience welcoming high school students from the continent to #AAASKU as part of the Pan-African Youth Program w/ Global Ties KC.

We look forward to welcoming you back as undergraduate <a href="/UnivOfKansas/">University of Kansas</a> students.
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#AAASKU graduation gathering. Congrats to all of our graduates, undergrad & grad. We’re proud of you & look forward to seeing the heights that you go to from here. Thank you for choosing to follow your passion & study African & Diasporic Studies at this critical moment.

#AAASKU graduation gathering. Congrats to all of our graduates, undergrad &amp; grad. We’re proud of you &amp; look forward to seeing the heights that you go to from here. Thank you for choosing to follow your passion &amp; study African &amp; Diasporic Studies at this critical moment.
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Started off summer reading w/ three excellent memoirs over the past week. Neneh Cherry’s Neneh Cherry: A Thousand Threads, Martha Jones’ The Trouble of Color, & David Roediger’s An Ordinary White #BlackStudies #BlackHistory

Started off summer reading w/ three excellent memoirs over the past week. Neneh Cherry’s Neneh Cherry: A Thousand Threads, Martha Jones’ The Trouble of Color, &amp; David Roediger’s An Ordinary White #BlackStudies #BlackHistory
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Next up from the book stack, Blacks Against Brown: The Intra-racial Struggle over Segregated Schools in Topeka, Kansas by Charise Cheney #BlackStudies #BlackHistory

Next up from the book stack, Blacks Against Brown: The Intra-racial Struggle over Segregated Schools in Topeka, Kansas by Charise Cheney #BlackStudies #BlackHistory
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Next up from the book stack, Sam Klug’s, The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization #BlackStudies #BlackHistory

Next up from the book stack, Sam Klug’s, The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization #BlackStudies #BlackHistory