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Exploring—and enhancing—the African American experience

AASD Racial Trauma 2021

The Psychological Costs of Anti-Blackness: The Consequences and Impact of Racial Trauma

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Scholarship and Research of Dr. Angel Dunbar and Dr. Cecily Hardaway

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Teaching Innovation Grant

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Life After Gunshot Event on November 24

Global Reparations Flyer

GLOBAL MODELS OF REPARATIONS DISCUSSION

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Erica Puentes Martínez named Undergrad Researcher Of The Year

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Dr. Sangeetha Madhavan has been awarded $2.5 million by the National Institutes of Health for Research in Kenya

Reparations Flyer 2020

A Discussion on the First United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation

2020 BBI Seed Grant recipients, from left to right, starting at top: Profs. Ball, Bera, Clyne, Dooling, Fryer, Gaudry, Hoover, Jose, Manocha, Raghavan, Richardson, Roy, Shilton, Shim, Smith, and Sriram

Joseph B. Richardson, Jr. was recently awarded a Brain and Behavior Seed Grant Award

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Rooted: Black Women, Southern Memory, and Womanist Cartographies

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Dr. Harley Presents "Black History through the Lens of African American Women and the Women's Suffrage Movement"

In the Tribune-Star article, it discusses how Dr. Harley is an alum of Saint Mary of the Woods College and on February 11 she will be presenting via Zoom.

Dr. Harley Presents "Black History through the Lens of African American Women and the Women's Suffrage Movement" - Read more

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Crossing the Boundaries Between Academia and the Streets, Professor Joseph Richardson Jr. Seeks to Find a Way Out of Trauma for Young Black Men

In this article, it discusses Dr. Richardson's background and how he came to become a Professor at the University of Maryland. It also gives an insight on Dr.

Crossing the Boundaries Between Academia and the Streets, Professor Joseph Richardson Jr. Seeks to Find a Way Out of Trauma for Young Black Men - Read more

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UMD Expert on National Panel Recommending Reducing Violence Without Police (Featuring Dr. Richardson)

An article on the Maryland Today was written by Liam Farrell on November 11,2020.

UMD Expert on National Panel Recommending Reducing Violence Without Police (Featuring Dr. Richardson) - Read more

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Items of Interest

  • AASD Spring 2021 Courses
  • Summer Abroad Funding - Gilman Scholarship
  • Fall 2020 Courses

Publications

  • The vitality of social media for establishing a research agenda on black lives and the movement
  • Moving Beyond the Household: Innovations in Data Collection on Kinship
  • Race, resources and preventable hospitalizations
  • From Broken Windows to Busy Streets: A community empowerment perspective
  • Exposure to violence predicting cortisol response during adolescence and early adulthood
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