Emory University is among a short list of higher education institutions in the U.S. offering a doctoral program in African American Studies. The program accepted its first cohort of students in the fall of 2023. Dr. Kali Nicole Gross, the National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of African American Studies and the chair of African American Studies at Emory University, discusses the success of the program thus far and what distinguishes Emory’s program from other doctoral programs.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.