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January 08, 2025

Austin Channing Brown Awarded Honorary Doctorate

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Oakland University awarded bestselling author Austin Channing Brown BA ’06 a Doctor of Humane Letters Honoris Causa at its fall commencement ceremony on December 13, 2024.

In her book I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness—along with its adapted version for youth—Channing Brown calls readers to recognize and address systemic racism. She is currently writing her third book, Full of Myself: Notes on Black Womanhood, which will be released this year.

Read more at Oakland University News.

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