Department of Africana Studies 2026 James Newton Symposium - Reclaiming Our Breath: Black Health, Healing, and Wellness

In these times of worldly chaos, disarray, and ongoing assault on Black lives, healing, health ways, and wellness are imperative within our communities. The strife and stress of lack of access to safe housing and neighborhoods, healthy food options, health care, quality education and job opportunities compounds with everyday microaggression, the policies and politics failing our communities, and carceral violence that disproportionately affect us. These generational traumas in the afterlife of slavery beg us to focus and prioritize Black health and strategies of wellness.

James Newton, one of the founding directors of the program in Black Studies (now the Department of Africana Studies), was an artist, scholar, and advocate for Black study and student life at the University of Delaware. As a driver of the fields of African American and African Diaspora Studies at UD, his lasting impact brings us together in community to critically reflect on the future of Black life and study. We build on Dr. Newton’s legacy of activism and people-centered scholarship to explore new directions, questions, and methodologies that define the field of Africana Studies in our evolving historical, social, cultural, political, and environmental realities.

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