Past Events
March 28, 2017: Book Talk and Signing
African American Studies Celebrates Women’s History Month with a Book Talk by Dr. Marcia Walker McWilliams on her recent publication, Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender and Racial Equality.
April 8, 2017: African American Studies is the on-campus sponsor for the 8th Annual Stop the Silence National African American Breast Cancer Walk/Run at Lynn Eusan Park
April 20, 2017: Book Talk Agnes Arnold Hall Room 210
11:30 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Featuring Dr. Kameelah L. Martin recent publication, “ Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics: African Spirituality in American Cinema”.
February 16, 2017: The Wilmington Ten Discussion and Book Signing
In February 1971, racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes between white vigilantes and black residents. Ten young persons were convicted of arson and conspiracy and then sentenced to a total of 282 years in prison. They became known internationally as the Wilmington Ten. Dr. Kenneth Janken narrates the dramatic story of the Ten, connecting their story to a larger arc of Black Power and the transformation of post-Civil Rights era political organizing.
Dr. Kenneth Janken is professor of African American and Diaspora studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of the UNC Center for the Study of the American South.
11:30 A.M.
Agnes Arnold Hall, Room 210