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By Chris Caldwell Sydney Joslin-Knapp ’16 attempts to blend her photography degree with her African American Studies minor to show issues of race rather than merely tell them. “Since coming to OU, I realize just how little people talk about race in a productive way,” says Joslin-Knapp. African American Studies […]

The Department of African American Studies invites the campus community to celebrate the release of its newest faculty member’s book, A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Women, on Thursday, Feb. 26, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Little Professors Bookstore. The event includes a reading, a brief discussion, […]

The African American Studies Department is partnering with the Black Graduate Student Association on a series of coffee cup stickers in the Baker Center Front Room. The second one celebrates Black History Month with “OUr Black History Fun Facts: 1833: African-American James Roye begins attending Ohio University. Roye is elected […]

The African American Studies Department is partnering with the Black Graduate Student Association on a series of coffee cup stickers in the Baker Center Front Room. The second one celebrates Black History Month with some little-known facts: James Durnham, who was born a slave in 1762, bought his freedom at […]

The African American Studies Department is partnering with the Black Graduate Student Association on a series of coffee cup stickers in the Baker Center Front Room. The first one celebrates Black History Month with some “Did You Know?” facts: The hairbrush, lawn mower, cellphone, refrigerator, air conditioner and traffic light […]

The MLK Committee would like to thank the Ohio University community for its generous donations for the MLK Jr. first annual school supply drive, which ended on Jan. 30, 2015. With the help of faculty, staff and students and the $200 contribution from Athens Walmart and Larry Conrath Realty, the community […]

With Dr. Michael Gillespie, Dr. Katarzyna Marciniak is curator of the new Transcultural Encounters and Border Crossings Film Series at the Athena this spring. Marciniak, Professor of English, specializes in transnational studies, and the film series’ theme reflects her scholarly interests. Gillespie is Assistant Professor of Film Theory, with the […]