Gloria Harper Dickinson

  Professor Cassandra Jackson, Professor of English at TCNJ, will discuss “The Death of Black Boyhood,” at  the fourth annual Gloria Harper Dickinson Memorial Lecture on April 17, 2013 at 4 PM at the TCNJ Library auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. The presentation’s title is taken from Prof. Jackson’s June, [...]

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The African-American Studies department is one of the co-sponsors of the Feb. 27-28 campus visit of filmmaker Fred Kuworno. Here are the details: Wed Feb 27, New Education Building 212, 3:00pm 18 Ius Soli – The Right of Soil: We Are All Italians, Just Not Legally (Italy, 2012) An award-winning documentary about 18 young people [...]

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National Park Service Photo of 4th US Colored troops

Daniel W. Crofts, a renowned historian of the American South and professor of history at TCNJ, will discuss current scholarship and popular understandings of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in a lecture at The College of New Jersey, February 6, 2013 at 7 pm in room 115 of the Education building. Crofts’ lecture will be preceded by [...]

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trayvon

  Read the archived chat and share your thoughts! The AFAM Salon: What the Trayvon Martin case means for us Hosts: Winnifred Brown-Glaude and Piper Kendrix Williams     The February 26 killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin has provoked visceral responses across the US and around the world, even as the focus of the case [...]

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Abdoulaye Wade

Moderated by Drs. Moussa Sow and Marla Jaksch, Departments of African American Studies and World Languages and Cultures, The College of New Jersey This online chat took place about the election crisis in Senegal took place Feb. 25, 2012 from 11 am-noon  EST. It was moderated by TCNJ professors Dr. Moussa Sow and Dr. Marla [...]

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TCNJ Celebration of Student Achievement – April 2011

 

(Adriana Botti and Professor Piper Kendrix-Williams)

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