With great sorrow, I have to report the passing of Dr. Anthony Kaye. Tony was a dear friend and collaborator of the Lapidus Center.…
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 @ 6:30pm In celebration of Black Music Month, the Lapidus Center will present the documentary film Tango Negro:…
The Lapidus Center offers two long-term fellowships to assist scholars whose research on transatlantic slavery can benefit from extended access to the…
The Harriet Tubman Prize is awarded annually to a distinguished nonfiction book published in the United States on the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery in the…
The Lapidus collection is continuously growing. In addition to his first 2014 gift of over 400 rare books and documents, Sid Lapidus…
New ideas, enlightening conversations, cutting-edge research, tomorrow’s trends: it’s all here in the Lapidus Center podcast series. Listen to our visiting scholars as…
Monday April 24, 2017 @ 6:30pm The first known transatlantic slaving voyages sailing directly from Africa brought captives to the Spanish Caribbean as…
By Sylviane A. Diouf, Director, Lapidus Center. May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. Let’s stretch it a bit and discover or learn more…
Over the course of nearly 20 centuries, millions of East Africans crossed the Indian Ocean and its several seas and adjoining bodies…