Announcements of Past Departmental Events
  • New Fall 2005 course:  Black-White View of America
  • Fall 2004: New graduate course:African Americans and the Urban Landscape.Course Description
  • August 2004:  African American Studies Endowed Lectureship Fund receives contribution from the Honorable Demone A. Smith
  • April 24, 2004: Department receives donation from the Mary Burnett Talbert Civic and Cultural Club.
  • May, 2004: WNED presents an art exhibition of selected works of Professor James G. Pappas.
  • April 8, 2004: African American Studies has invited Dr. Mary Frances Berry to deliver a lecture on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Brown Decision.
  • March 3, 2004: African American Studies presents a lecture by acclaimed Barbadian-Canadian novelist, Austin Clarke.
  • Spring 2004: James Pitts,  former City of Buffalo Common Council President teaches a course for us.
  • Spring 2004: African American Studies helps sponsor UB's 8th International Women's Film Festival.
  • Fall 2004: African American Studies is part of the new Film Studies Program.
  • October 24 through November 21st, 2003:  An art exhibition by faculty member, Professor James G. Pappas. 
  • African American Studies Celebrates the Centennial of  the Publication of  W. E.B. DUBOIS' S The Souls of Black Folk with a Public Lecture Series
  • February 27, 2003: Dr. Lillian S.  Williams, Chair of African American Studies meets with Russian Educators
  • October 24, 2003: "Black on Black Crime:" A Lecture by Dr. Peter St. Jean
  • November 7, 2003: A lecture by Eddie Faye Gates
  • November 7-8, 2003:  African American Studies Department is among the sponsors of the Third Annual Conference of the Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women, Inc.
  • October 14 and 15, 2003: Presentation and discussion by a visitor from Ghana: Dr. Nah (Dorothy) Dove.
  • Fall 2003: Events to mark the visit to Buffalo of the Amistad Freedom Schooner.
  • Spring 2003: Lecture Series to Celeberate the Centennial of the Publication of  W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk
  • 1999/2000: 30th Anniversary Celebrations.