Africana Studies Program Stockton University

Join us in celebration of Mrs. Hamer’s legacy!

It's Ospreys Give week at Stockton University. So if you are planning to give this week, please consider supporting the West Africa Study Tour, and sponsor a student with this life-changing opportunity https://give.stockton.edu/campaigns/22183/donations/new?designation=westafricastudytour.

R.I.P. Melvin Van Peebles. I will continue to keep your cinematic legacy alive in my classes!

Melvin Van Peebles, Champion of New Black Cinema, Dies at 89 A fertile creative force, he wrote fiction and musicals but is best known for a breakthrough movie that heralded the genre known as blaxploitation.

The Africana Studies Program at Stockton University welcomes Dr. Wilbert St.Hilaire as Assistant Professor of Africana Studies.

Dr. Wilbert St.Hilaire originally hails from a small Ayisyen (Ayitian/Haitian) community in Spring Valley, New York and is 1st generation of Ayisyen descent living in the United States. Dr. St.Hilaire graduated SUNY Oswego in the spring of 2014 with a B.A. in History and a minor in African American studies. He would go on to receive an M.A. in Africana Studies at the University at Albany (SUNY) and a Ph. D from the department of Africology & African American studies at Temple University. His dissertation is titled: “An Afrocentric Re-examination of the Historiography around the Afrikan Revolution in Ayiti(Haiti)” and his research interests include Caribbean culture & politics, the history of ancient Afrikan civilizations and kingdoms, Afrikan cosmology/spirituality, urban black politics, Afrikan leisure & sports and Hip-Hop culture.

Welcome Dr. St.Hilaire!

Congratulations class of 2021!

TODAY is the day!! MC Lyte is on the microphone!! Register now!

Please register in advance for this webinar:
https://stockton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3NJBJ7EzTRytDXRQrm6T5g

Thursday, Feb. 18th at 12:30 - panel discussion on Black Identity. https://stockton.zoom.us/j/96964236822?pwd=R0IzcU9zSFFWRjJhTTJPK0pKM0xLQT09
Passcode: 906573

Don’t miss the School of Business’ Black History Month Distinguished Guest Speaker Panel featuring Dr. Leon Prieto, Associate Professor of Management at Clayton State Univ. and Dr. Simone Phipps, Associate Professor at Middle Georgia State Univ. who will be discussing their book “African American Management History: Insights on Gaining a Cooperative Advantage”. The event will be held this evening, February 16, 2021 at 4:30pm via Zoom. This event is co-hosted by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the NJ Small Business Development Center at Stockton Univ., the Office of Strategic Initiatives, the Africana Studies Program and the Organizational Leaders in Action. Please be sure to register now so that you may enter the webinar with ease. See link below: https://stockton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uoAtN1-tTWuF2SN7j4Ym_g

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-month

Black History Month Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history. Also known as

Join us - February 4th at 2:30 pm