Sanders and Frederick Host Inaugural HBCU Film Festival at Emory

Emory University Associate Professor of African American Studies Crystal R. Sanders and Harvard Divinity School Dean Marla Frederick sponsored the inaugural HBCU Film Festival at Emory University on April 11, 2025. Undergraduate and graduate students from throughout the United States submitted short films about some aspect of HBCU history and culture. Select films were screened during the festival and noted scholars and filmmakers participated in a panel about HBCUs and ways to raise the profiles of HBCUs using various media. Be on the lookout for information about the 2026 HBCU Film Festival!

PBS Produces 5-Part Documentary Series Based on Sanders's Forthcoming Book. See Episode 1 Here

Crystal Sanders and other National Humanities Center Fellows Discuss the Price of Injustice

What have segregation, racial inequality and police violence cost us? Reckoning with the centuries-long toll of treating African Americans as less than their...

Crystal Sanders and Erica Frankenberg weigh in on public education 65 years after the Brown decision (interview link at bottom of post)

Click here to listen to the interview.

Sanders Named Director of the Africana Research Center at Penn State

https://news.psu.edu/story/526306/2018/06/25/academics/crystal-sanders-named-director-africana-research-center

Sanders Speaks at the 223rd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Crystal Sanders recently spoke about Head Start in civil rights-era Mississippi during the Presbyterian Historical Society's luncheon during the 223rd General Assembly in St. Louis, MO.  Click the link for more information about her remarks.

https://www.pcusa.org/news/2018/6/20/phs-remembers-head-start-program/