All Posts in #African American
Negro Spirituals: A Workshop/Discussion on the Historical Context
Join us Thursday, Oct. 5, at 6 p.m. in the Community Folk Art Center to discuss the Afro-American experience as it relates to the so-called African American slaves. We will be examining the people, how they lived and how they…
Psychologist Awarded $400,000 Grant to Study Health Behaviors among African American High School Students
Aesoon Park, assistant professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of a three-year, $400,000 grant award from the National Institute of Health. A clinical psychologist and member of Syracuse’s Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Group, she will…
African American, Latino Alumni Gather for Coming Back Together 2014
Coming Back Together 2014, Syracuse University’s African American and Latino alumni reunion, will take place on campus Sept. 18-21. The theme is Celebrate, Inspire, Empower! Celebrar, Inspirar, Empoderar! This is the 11th CBT Reunion—the events take place every three years.
Black & Banned: Community Read-Out Planned
The Black Syracuse Project in the Department of African American Studies is organizing Black & Banned, a Community Read-Out for Banned Books Week, Sept. 22-28. This year’s event is a “town-gown” collaboration with the Beauchamp Branch of the Onondaga County…
Alumna to present on the art of African American cooking
Syracuse University alumna Patricia E. Clark ’89, G ’93 vividly remembers the sights, sounds and smells of the fried chicken dinners the women in her church packaged up and sold to help pay the rent and other church expenses.“We would…
Black and Banned: Community-wide Read-Out planned Oct. 2
Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Toni Morrison and Alice Walker and internationally renowned author and humanitarian Maya Angelou share a common bond—their books have been banned, challenged or rejected in public schools and libraries across the United States.