Post Tagged with: "Akil Houston"

Inside Higher Ed interviewed Dr. Akil Houston for a new story headlined “Curriculum Incentive Plan Prompts Political Backlash.” Houston is Associate Professor of Cultural and Media Studies in the African American Studies Department in the College of Arts & Sciences. Akil Houston, an associate professor of African American studies at […]

The BBC Profile program interviewed Dr. Akil Houston on the release of Donda, Kanye West’s newest album. I still remember the first time I saw him on MTV. There was something different about the way that he talked about his craft and what he saw on the horizon. He showed the […]

 From Ohio University News In honor of Black History Month, Ohio University professors discussed the origins of Hip-Hop and how over the last 50 years it has influenced black culture, activism and education in the latest Ask the Experts livestream. The experts emphasized how Hip-Hop is made of several […]

Popsugar quotes Dr. Akil Houston, associate professor of African American Studies at Ohio University, extensively in a story headlined “15 Celebrity Cultural Appropriation Mistakes We Should All Learn From.” “Black women are often demonized, caricatured, and body-shamed for their hair, styles of clothing, and cultural production, like dance or vernacular,” […]

Dr. Akil Houston was interviewed by Fair Observer writer Kourosh Ziabari in an article headlined “Being Black in America.” Houston is Associate Professor in African American Studies at Ohio University. In this edition of The Interview, Fair Observer talks to Akil Houston, a filmmaker, social critic and an associate professor of […]

Alan Grigsby ’10, ’12M, an alumnus of the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University, is now Assistant Professor of Sociology at Curry College in Milton, Mass. Grigsby’s work focuses on race relations and racial inequality. Specifically, he is interested in how social interactions operate in different neighborhood settings […]

Applied research relevant to 21st century issues was on stage as College of Arts & Sciences faculty were recognized at Ohio University’s 2019 newsmakers gala. Members of the Ohio University community gathered Oct. 3 to celebrate the hundreds of OHIO faculty who promote the research, expertise and overall excellence of […]