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Thomas “Malik” Tillman Scholarship Thomas “Malik” Tillman lived a life of service to others. He was passionate about celebrating African and African American cultures, documenting, and preserving African Americans’ historical legacies in Greater Charlotte, and educating the African American youth about history and culture. He was both an Africana Studies (B.A.) and History (M.A.) alum […]

Michele Randolph’s Inspiring Story

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Dr. Oscar de la Torre wins national award

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The Yoruba: A New History

Narrow Escapes

Black Families and Recession in the United States The Enduring Impact of the Great Recession of 2007–2009

Danielle Boaz has has a New book

OGUNDIRAN RECEIVES FIRST CITIZENS BANK SCHOLARS MEDAL

Virtual Advising: Find Your Advisor Undergraduate Advisor Dr. Debra C. Smith debrasmi@uncc.edu Honors Advisor Dr. Oscar de la Torre Eodelator@uncc.edu Graduate Studies Advisor Dr. Danielle Boaz dboaz@uncc.edu

AFRS and GESP are collaborating About GESP “The Global Engagement Scholars Program (GESP) is an opportunity for students to demonstrate their Global competency through participation in academic, cio-curricular and international engagement activities. The GESP is coordinated by the Office of International Programs and the Department of Global Studies. Students will learn how to conduct basic […]

Call for Papers The University of North Carolina, Africana Studies Department and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program invites you to submit a proposal for our 2020 symposium. Theme: Imagining Futures: Black Girls and Women at the Intersections The Africana Studies Department and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at UNC Charlotte invites you to […]

Ogundiran honored

Speaker: Dr. Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards Assistant Professor, Duke University’s School of Medicine and Associate Director of Research, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity “Black Women and Reproductive Justice: A Lifelong Health Issue” October 24, 2019 4:00-6:00 p.m. Cone Center: McKnight Hall 320

Tanure Ojaide, the Frank Graham Porter Professor of Africana Studies, is co-recipient of the 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Awarded by the Lumina Foundation, the Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa is a pan-African writing prize given biennially to the best literary work produced by an African. Soyinka, who presented the honor […]