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DEPARTMENTAL NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Buffalo to host the 90th Annual Conference of the ASALH (Association for the Study of African American Life and History), from October 5-9, 2005.Conference Theme: The Niagara Movement: Black Protest Reborn 1905-2005

New Fall 2005 course: Black-White View of America
Summer/Fall 2005: The Department celebrates the centennial of the founding of the Niagara Movement.
Marking the 40th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
July 9, 2005: The County of Niagara and others issue proclamations as the Department celebrates the centennial of the founding of the Niagara Movement.
April 7, 2005: The Minority Faculty and Staff Association sponsors a lecture by Professor Michael Eric Dyson.
April 25, 2005: African American Studies co-sponsors a lecture by visiting scholar Kevin Boyle.
March 21, 2005: African American Studies co-sponsors a lecture by Professor William L. Andrews.
March 2-April 15, 2005: African American Studies co-sponsors lectures in conjunction with the NEH funded exhibition: "Forever Free."
February 10, 2005: A lecture by Dr. Francoise Pfaff on women in African Films.
Spring 2005: African American Studies helps sponsor UB's 9th International Women's Film Festival (January 27 through March 3, 2005).
October 26, 2004: A Video conference with the Zurich Jazz Institute
The Department celebrates the art of Professor James G. Pappas
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OTHER NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Spring 2005: PBS to screen program on slavery titled "Slavery and the Making of America." Other upcoming PBS programs of relevance include American Experience "Malcolm X - Make it Plain" and "Race: The Power of an Illusion."
Spring 2004: Essay Contest to mark the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.
Spring/Fall 2004: Brown v. Board of Education digital archive at University of Michigan.
Spring/Fall 2004:2004 is the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition. Click here for more information (you will be taken to a page at the Unesco web site).

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