USC African American Studies Program

It’s not too late to enroll in an AFAM summer course📚📓📖📔

The African American Studies Department's first Sankofa Symposium was held on Saturday. "Reflecting Upon One Hundred Years of Black Studies Toward Strategies of Renewal and Resistance." AFAM faculty shared their research that focused on the symposium theme through various formats. Bravo AFAM Bravo❗️ Looking forward to next years.

“Before Bondage” panel discussion Tuesday evening was phenomenal. Dr. Melanie Holmes asked the questions to WIS News 10 anchors Intisar Faulkner and Billie Jean Shaw. The panel was inspired by their February documentary (that needs to be viewed throughout the year). Michael Allen, Dr. Todd Shaw, and Dr. Kendall Deas added to the panel to discuss the history and culture based around Gullah Geechee culture of South Carolina. Bravo‼️

Dr. Nancy Tolson enjoyed talking with artist David McGee and curator, Katia Zavistovski on 'Take on the South' podcast. The talk was on McGee's upcoming exhibit "The Griot and the Nightingale" which opens March 14th at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art.

Dada with Artist David McGee | feat. Dr. Nancy Tolson & Katia Zavistovski On this special episode, Dr. Nancy Tolson sits down with Houston-based artist David McGee and Bechtler Museum of Modern Art Curator Katia Zavistovski as they...

The morning of the breakfast to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was pretty cold outside but inside the Russell House Ballroom the radiance of warmth and wisdom that came from the speaker, Dr. Sarah Lewis as well as the award recipients filled our hearts and minds. Congratulations Shalaia Myers for receiving the Undergraduate Student‼️

Congratulations to Dr. Franklin Gause, a distinguished AFAM major, on receiving his Ph.D. in Educational Foundations from USC. Dr. Gause holds positions as faculty member, Site Coordinator, and Program Director of the Call Me MiSTER Program in the Teacher Education Department at Coastal Carolina University. You truly can with AFAM‼️