Dr. Crystal R. Sanders is the co-winner of the 2025 Lillian Smith Book Award jointly given by the Southern Regional Council and the University of Georgia Libraries. She and co-winner, Dr. Robert Cohen of NYU, will accept their awards during a September 30 ceremony in Decatur, GA.
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!
What have segregation, racial inequality and police violence cost us? Reckoning with the centuries-long toll of treating African Americans as less than their...
https://news.psu.edu/story/526306/2018/06/25/academics/crystal-sanders-named-director-africana-research-center
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/
Email: csande6@emory.edu
