The College of Arts & Letters recognized its 2024 Faculty Award winners for their outstanding leadership, teaching, innovation, and community engagement as well as the impact they have made to enhance curriculum and student experiences.
Join us for a workshop with Justice for Black Girls founder Brianna Baker on Wed. 10/16 @ 12:30 pm in the Student Café!
The Department of African American and African Studies is excited to bring back Activating Wellness Week – an initiative created in 2022 by AAAS advisors.…
Did you know the Department of African American and African Studies is 5 years old? It is!! I, Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown, am so full…
Celebrating Black Girl Brilliance Grit Glam and Guts' legendary Black Girl Day of Pay is June 29th from 11am-4pm at Lansing's Adado Riverfront Park. Meet us…
Black History. Black Future. "Empowering Black Wellness" (Seminar & Mixer) Our very own Dr. LeConté Dill is part of a dynamic panel on one of…
Mental health has become a part of wellness discussions in schools, workplaces, and health care organizations. In higher education, there has been a greater focus…
Michigan State University’s Spring 2024 commencement will see the very first students to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in African American and African Studies. As…
Stitch by stitch, quilt making has played an integral role in African American history. But the storytelling embedded in the quilts themselves is more than mere tradition. In the Afrofuturism & Quilts: Materializing Black Futures & Black Womxn’s Quilt Legacies Exhibition now on display through Friday, July 19, at the MSU Union Art Gallery, local and national quilt artists and quilt scholars explore embodied and theoretical connections between Afrofuturism and quilt making.
On Saturday, April 6, 2024 come join the Department of African American and African Studies from 1:00-3:00pm for Beats and Hustle! We will have Wax…
Evamelo (Eva) Oleita, who is among the inaugural class of students majoring in African American and African Studies (AAAS) at Michigan State University, is researching the experiences of Black girls within predominately white institutions (PWIs) and how those students carve out spaces for themselves to thrive.
The College of Arts & Letters is pleased to host MacArthur Fellow and acclaimed scholar, author, poet, and wildlife biologist Dr. J. Drew Lanham as…