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Past Events
2022
- African American Studies Program Keynote Address by David A. Padgett, "Creating a
'Beloved Community' for Africatown with Technology-Based Service Learning" (January),
recording viewable here with passcode: ?+W#8wz0
2021
- An interview of Kern Jackson, Director of the African American Studies Program and
faculty member in English, conducted by Writer-in-Residence, Frye Gaillard (October
13)
- A talk by Mudiwa Pettus, Assistant Professor of English Composition and Rhetoric at
Medgar Evers College, on "Against Compromise: Black Rhetorical Education in the Age
of Booker T. Washington" (April 21), part of the Spring 2021 Race and Identity series
sponsored by the English Department
- A presentation by and conversation between USA Writer in Residence Frye Gaillard and
Journalist in Residence in Residence Cynthia Tucker on Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: A New Perspective on Race in America (January 27), part of the Spring 2021 Race and Identity series sponsored by the English
Department
2020
- A talk with slam poet and National Book Award Finalist Patricia Smith (November 10),
sponsored by the English Department
- A series of Zoom events to address current events, Deliberate Dialogues: Discussing
2020 with Contemporary African American authors, facilitated by Dr. Laura Vrana, Assistant
Professor of English & African American Studies (June-July)
- African American Studies annual keynote address:
