African American Studies

The Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum invites the public to visit their site during their annual African American Heritage Day, held Saturday, July 14, 2012 from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

"The Tobacco King" was filmed and produced as part of the Elon University senior's Lumen Prize work.

The April 18 forum at 7 p.m. in Whitley Auditorium is being sponsored by Invisible Children and the African & African American Studies program at Elon.

In an annual program dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr., Boyce Watkins reminds the university community “change is not comfortable.”

Elon has launched a new Black History Month website to promote awareness, understanding and celebration of Black experiences on campus.

African and African American Studies at Elon and the Black History Month 2012 Steering Committee present a special pre-screening of "Black in America 4," a CNN program hosted by Soledad O'Brien.

Sowande Mustakeem ’00 has come a long way since her Elon graduation more than a decade ago. A master’s, doctorate and postdoctoral fellowship later, she is a respected authority in history and African and African-American studies, which she teaches as an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Recently, Mustakeem’s article, “‘She must go overboard & shall go overboard:’ Diseased bodies and the spectacle of murder at sea,” was published in Atlantic Studies, a leading journal in the field.