African-American Studies

Gloria Harper Dickinson Lecture 

Upcoming Events

Past Events:

•  February 6, 2013:  Annual Black History Month lecture: Remembering the Emancipation Proclamation, 7 pm, Education Building 115
• April 18, 2012, 4 PM – Meet Kenyan political activist Ken Okoth. Bliss Hall 234. Learn about Okoth’s Children of Kibera Foundation
• April 18, 8-9 PM EST – AFAM Salon: What the Trayvon Martin Tragedy Means to Us Discussion led by Dr. Winnifred Brown-Glaude and Dr. Piper Kendrix Williams
• April 6-7, 2012 Black Thought 2.0: New Media and the Future of Black StudiesJohn Hope Franklin Center, Duke University.  View the archived video:
  • Opening keynote: S. Craig Watkins (introduction by Wahneema Lubiano)
  • The Chocolate Supa Highway
  • On the Grid: Teaching and Research in the Digital Age ( Includes TCNJ AAS Department Chair Kim Pearson)
  • From Jena, Louisiana to Tahrir Square
  • The Twitterati and the Twittergentsia

• Feb. 25, 2012: The AFAM Salon – Election Crisis in Senegal view the online chat and add your thoughts.
• 2012 Black History Month event  Robert P. Moses – “Quality Education as a Constitutional Right”  Read the TCNJ Signal article on the event.
• 2011 -12 Gloria Harper Dickinson Annual Lecture – Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University, on The Help.
• 2010-11 Gloria Harper Dickinson Annual Lecture – Karen Jackson-Wearver, Princeton University, “Race, Gender and Class in African-American Religious History.
• 2009-10 Gloria Harper Dickinson Inaugural event: Exploring Herstory: The Scholarly Legacy of Gloria Harper Dickinson:
  • Welcome: Dean Deborah Compte
  • Remarks, Pres. Barbara Gitenstein
  • Remarks, Ann Marie Nicolosi, Ph.D. and Gloria’s former student
  • Glora Dickonson, Institution Builder: William Jelani Cobb, Ph.D.
  • Remarks, Dr. Angelique Douyon Jessup, Ph.D. another former student
  • Gloria Dickson’s view of Africa and African-Americans, Kassuhun Checole, publisher African World Press
  • On Gloria Dickinson, China and John Hope Franklin, Xinru Liu
• Angela Y. Davis, 2008 Black History Month Presentation at TCNJ.
  • Video: Angela Davis Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

• Teaching Brown 2003 Oral History Conference