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: