Texas A&M African American Professional Organization - AAPO

The African American Professional Organization (AAPO) will host its fall 2021 Welcome Back Social on Friday, September 10, 2021, from 7 pm – 9 pm at the Texas A&M Hotel and Conference Center Block T Bar & Grill. This social is a great opportunity to reconnect with colleagues and meet new faculty and staff. Guests can also learn more about AAPO Membership.

RSVP at this link or by the image below: https://ers.tamu.edu/register.aspx?scheduleid=37132.

We hope to see you all there. Masks are strongly encouraged!

Throwback to scenes at our last Fall Welcome Back Social! Thanks to everyone that attended.

Please join the African-American Professional Organization for our annual Welcome Back Social on Friday, September 13th from 6-8 p.m. This is an opportunity for returning staff and faculty to reconnect, and also welcome any new faculty and staff to campus. Light appetizers will be served and there is a cash bar. RSVP here:

ers.tamu.edu

The Black Graduate Students' Association, Black Student Alliance Council, African American Professional Organization, and Office of Graduate and Professional Students cordially invite you to attend a mixer in MSC 2300D on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. The theme of the event will be Mentorship.

Black Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Professionals, Faculty, and Staff are all encouraged to attend. Don't miss out on this opportunity! Food will be available beginning at 5:30pm and the program will begin promptly at 6pm. Please RSVP at https://ers.tamu.edu/register.aspx?scheduleid=26887.

"My own research confirms that the forced exodus of black women from the teaching profession was ignited by Brown. Discrimination by school leaders fueled the demographic decline of black teachers and remains one of the leading factors for their under-representation in the profession today."

Jessie Simmons: How a schoolteacher became an unsung hero of the civil rights movement When Jessie Simmons applied for a teaching job in 1958, her application went to a separate file for "Negro teachers" and got rejected. An education scholar recounts how Simmons fought back and won.

Many thanks for today's fantastic lecture by Dr. Robin Means Coleman on policing, the internet of things, and respectability as part of AAPO's First Friday Lecture series. Our next lecture will take place in April and video of Dr. Robin Means Coleman's lecture will be available this summer on AAPO's new YouTube channel. Stay tuned! @ Texas A&M University

Charles and Carolyn Brown have been fixtures in education, agriculture In 2014, on a fall Friday night under the lights, Carolyn and Charles Brown stood on the Buddy Moorhead Memorial Stadium turf in Conroe wearing purple jerseys to represent the

The March 2019 First Friday Lecture, scheduled for March 1, 2019 and sponsored by AAPO, features Dr. Robin Means Coleman, Vice President for Diversity and Professor of Communications. Her lecture will discuss "the internet of things" and respectability policing. Registration for our March First Friday lecture is available at this link: https://ers.tamu.edu/register.aspx?scheduleid=26571

Colson Whitehead will give a reading of his National Book Award and Nobel Prize-winning novel, The Underground Railroad, at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center April 9th at 7:00 p.m. This reading is free and open to the public, brought to you by Brazos Valley Reads and the College of Liberal Arts.

The African American Professional Organization announces its AAPO Gets Lit Book Club selection for spring 2019, "An American Marriage" by Tayari Jones. Join us for our book club discussion in April by registering here: https://ers.tamu.edu/register.aspx?scheduleid=26582.

Meanwhile, take part in the ongoing discussion in our AAPO Gets Lit discussion group on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2158560901054529.