Events

Upcoming Events

• Check back here for our upcoming Spring 2017 event!

Past Events

• Wed. October 26, 2016: “Race, Democracy, & the 2016 Presidential Election” – guest lecture/panel discussion with Dr. Eddie S. Glaude, author of “Democracy in Black: How Race Enslaves the American Soul” and Chair Department of African American Studies, Princeton University and Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation” and Assistant Professor, Dept. of African American Studies, Princeton University. 5pm, Mayo Concert Hall, book signing to follow at 6:30 in Mayo Concert Hall Lobby.
• April 9, 2015: Dr. Ruha Benjamin, ” ‘Discriminatory Design’: From Park Bench to Lab Bench, Who’s Designing Our Future?“, 5:00 PM, Library Auditorium. (Read up on this event by TCNJ’s student newspaper, The Signal, here.)
• March 30-April 3, 2015: Islam Awareness Week – Muslim Students’ Association
• March 24, 2015: Charles Blow, “Race & Policing In America,” 7:00 PM, Education Building 212
• February 27, 2015: Dr. Lewis R Gordon, “Afro-Jewish Ethics,” 12:30 PM, Education Building 115
• February, 2015: Black History Month sponsored by Black Student Union (full detailed list of events)
• October 23, 2014: Dr. Jelani Cobb, “Between Us and the World: Ferguson, USA and the Lynching of Michael Brown,” 6 PM Mayo Concert Hall. Watch full lecture.
• October 23, 2013 Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, “Race, Crime and Urban America,” October 23, 5:30 PM Education 115. Watch the video
• August 28, 2013: AAS Salon Live chat: 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the March on Washington, 7:30 PM #tcnjdreamers on Twitter
• April 17, 2013: Annual Gloria Harper Dickinson lecture: The Death of Black Boyhood
• February 6, 2013: Annual Black History Month lecture: Remembering the Emancipation Proclamation, 7 PM, Education Building 115
• April 18, 2012, 4 PM – Meet Kenyan political activist Ken Okoth. Bliss Hall 234. Learn about Okoth’s Children of Kibera Foundation
• April 18, 8-9 PM EST – AFAM Salon: What the Trayvon Martin Tragedy Means to Us Discussion led by Dr. Winnifred Brown-Glaude and Dr. Piper Kendrix Williams
• April 6-7, 2012 Black Thought 2.0: New Media and the Future of Black StudiesJohn Hope Franklin Center, Duke University. View the archived video:
  • Opening keynote: S. Craig Watkins (introduction by Wahneema Lubiano)
  • The Chocolate Supa Highway
  • On the Grid: Teaching and Research in the Digital Age ( Includes TCNJ AAS Department Chair Kim Pearson)
  • From Jena, Louisiana to Tahrir Square
  • The Twitterati and the Twittergentsia

• Feb. 25, 2012: The AFAM Salon – Election Crisis in Senegal view the online chat and add your thoughts.
• 2012 Black History Month event Robert P. Moses – “Quality Education as a Constitutional Right” Read the TCNJ Signal article on the event.
• 2011 -12 Gloria Harper Dickinson Annual Lecture – Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University, on The Help.
• 2010-11 Gloria Harper Dickinson Annual Lecture – Karen Jackson-Wearver, Princeton University, “Race, Gender and Class in African American Religious History.
• 2009-10 Gloria Harper Dickinson Inaugural event: Exploring Herstory: The Scholarly Legacy of Gloria Harper Dickinson:
  • Welcome: Dean Deborah Compte
  • Remarks, Pres. Barbara Gitenstein
  • Remarks, Ann Marie Nicolosi, Ph.D. and Gloria’s former student
  • Glora Dickonson, Institution Builder: William Jelani Cobb, Ph.D.
  • Remarks, Dr. Angelique Douyon Jessup, Ph.D. another former student
  • Gloria Dickson’s view of Africa and African Americans, Kassuhun Checole, publisher African World Press
  • On Gloria Dickinson, China and John Hope Franklin, Xinru Liu
• Angela Y. Davis, 2008 Black History Month Presentation at TCNJ.
  • Video: Angela Davis Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

• Teaching Brown 2003 Oral History Conference