Dé Bryant, Ph.D., a professor at Indiana University South Bend is the recipient of The History Museum’s 2024 African American Legacy Award.
The African American Legacy Award is presented annually by The History Museum to celebrate the immeasurable contributions of African Americans in the St. Joseph River Valley, to honor the legacies and achievements of past generations, to shine a light on those in the present, and to influence efforts that will impact the future.
In her three-plus decades in South Bend, people have gotten to know Bryant not just as students in her classroom but also through her many community activities, including her Ubuntu Spirit Project, as a member of the Sisters of the Nile and Company dance troupe, as a co-founder of Black Lives Matter-South Bend, and with her Public Intellectuals Forum program.
Bryant specializes in community psychology and works to bring groups together.
Dr. Bryant says she’s honored to be acknowledged for her work in the community and says she’s just getting started.
“The Social Action Project I founded when I arrived here in 1990, what I want to do now is to continue establishing its roots and then extend it outward nationally as well as internationally,” she said.
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