Celebrating Black History Month 2015
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Dr. Jelani Cobb delivers a stunning lecture, “Between Us and the World: Ferguson, USA and the Lynching of Michael Brown,” to the faculty, staff and students of The College of New Jersey on the events in Ferguson, MO and a general discussion of race in America. Dr. Cobb is an Associate Professor of History and… Continue Reading
St. Johns University sociology professor Natalie Byfield will discuss her scholarship and journalism on the infamous 1989 Central Park jogger rape case at the fifth annual Gloria Harper Dickinson Lecture on March 17, 2014 in the TCNJ Library auditorium. The event is cosponsored by the Departments of African American Studies, Sociology, English, Criminology, Psychology and… Continue Reading
TEY-Today Trailer for US release.. from Guetty Felin on Vimeo. Saul Williams’ comeback to cinema is in the form of a beautiful, sensual, humane tale, directed by Alain Gomis. In a village outside Dakar, the gods – or the stars, or destiny, have spoken: Satché must die by the end of the day. Until nightfall,… Continue Reading
The Criminology and African-American Studies Departments brought scholar and Director of New York’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, to campus on Wednesday, October 23 to discuss race and crime in modern America. Dr. Muhammad’s 2011 book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America,… Continue Reading
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Professor Cassandra Jackson, Professor of English at TCNJ, will discuss “The Death of Black Boyhood,” at the fourth annual Gloria Harper Dickinson Memorial Lecture on April 17, 2013 at 4 PM at the TCNJ Library auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. The presentation’s title is taken from Prof. Jackson’s June,… Continue Reading
The African-American Studies department is one of the co-sponsors of the Feb. 27-28 campus visit of filmmaker Fred Kuworno. Here are the details: Wed Feb 27, New Education Building 212, 3:00pm 18 Ius Soli – The Right of Soil: We Are All Italians, Just Not Legally (Italy, 2012) An award-winning documentary about 18 young people… Continue Reading
Daniel W. Crofts, a renowned historian of the American South and professor of history at TCNJ, will discuss current scholarship and popular understandings of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in a lecture at The College of New Jersey, February 6, 2013 at 7 pm in room 115 of the Education building. Crofts’ lecture will be preceded… Continue Reading
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