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Black Studies

Michael Ray Charles

The Scholar and the Artist

October 30, 2023 by Daniel Oppenheimer

Cherise Smith looks at Michael Ray Charles looking at the world.

Jason Lamin leans against the back of a chair in a 3-piece suit and smiles at the camera.

Investing in the Future

December 16, 2020 by Tori Miller

Jason Lamin, a 2020 Pro Bene Meritis award recipient, shares what he values in this moment and where he finds inspiration.

Juneteenth illustration with yellow flowers, first, broken chains.

What is Juneteenth?

June 19, 2020 by Rachel E. Winston, Daina Ramey Berry and Kevin Cokley

Although Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, the date the holiday observes, June 19, 1865, came more than two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, when Texas finally received word that slavery had ended.

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