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  Dr. Ronald Stephens, Associate Professor of African American Studies, will give a lecture and sign books as a part of the African American Studies speaker series on Monday, Nov. 18, from 2 to 4 p.m. in Baker 231. Stephens new book, Idlewild: The Rise, Decline, and Rebirth of a […]

Rebecca de Schweinitz from Brigham Young University will present “‘And a Child Shall Lead Them’:  Young People and America’s Long Black Freedom Struggle” on Thursday, October 24, 2013 from 4:00-5:30 P.M. in Bentley 233. De Schweinitz is the author of If We Could Change the World: Young People and America’s Long […]

How did Ms. Magazine frame the “Beyonce’s Fierce Feminism” article? Dr. Janell Hobson talk about “The Politics of Looking (and Not Looking) Like a Feminist” on Thursday, Oct. 10, at 7 p.m. in Walter 135. Hobson is the Graduate Director of the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of […]

A Roundtable Discussion on Banning Literary Texts by African American Authors is Thursday, Oct. 3, at 4 p.m. in the Faculty Commons, third floor of Alden Library. Recently a school board in North Carolina banned Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man, concluding that the text lacked “literary value.” Invisible Man is […]

The African American Studies Department and the Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences are hosting a dessert reception during the Black Alumni Reunion weekend. The reception is Saturday, Sept. 28,  from 1-3 p.m. African American Studies is hosting the reception in the department’s new space at 31 S. Court. […]

The departments of African American Studies, History and Political Science and the Women’s Center welcome Dr. George Wright to Ohio University on Monday, Sept. 9, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Walter Rotunda. Wright, a noted African American scholar who has written extensively on topics such as racial violence […]

Ohio University will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a key event in the Civil Rights Movement where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech, from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28, at Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. […]