RECENT COMMENTS
Eric S. Huffstutler on What is up with the Church Hill Post Office?
Eric S. Huffstutler on What is up with the Church Hill Post Office?
Yvette Cannon on What is up with the Church Hill Post Office?
crd on Power Outage on the Hill
African-American community lecture series
10/25/2008 2:34 PM by John M
The current issue of The Defender has info about a series of lectures on Black history, culture and related issues being presented at the Family Resource Center as a collaboration between VCU’s Department of African American Studies, Richmond’s Slave Trail Commission, the Family Resource Center, the Elegba Folklore Society and the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences.
- Oct. 29: People and Culture of West Africa
Dr. Vivian Dzokoto, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, VCU - Nov. 5: History and Culture of the Zulu
Dingani Mthethwa, Adjunct Professor, VCU - Nov. 12: Slavery and Resistance in Richmond
Dr. Norrece Jones, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies, VCU - Nov. 19: The African Presence in South America
Arthur Burton, Richmond Community Organizer and Activist - Nov. 26: Gabriel’s Rebellion
Ana Edwards, Chair, Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project; Adjunct Professor, VCU - Dec. 3: Psychology of the Black Experience
Dr. Shawn Utsey, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Psychology, VCU - Dec. 10: History of Civil Rights Movement in Richmond
Eric King, Adjunct Professor, VCU - Dec. 17: How Media Images of African Americans Affect the Behavior of Youth
Dr. Aashir Nasim, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Psychology, VCU.
For more information, contact: Dr. Shawn O. Utsey, Chair, VCU Department of African American Studies, at (804) 828-4150 or soutsey@vcu.edu.
All lectures are set for 7PM at the East District Family Resource Center (2405 Jefferson Avenue).
John – Thanks for posting this. Looks like a great collaboration to bring knowledge from the university to the community.
FYI: There was a good article in yesterday’s The Washington Post on local efforts to reclaim the downtown “Burial Ground for Negroes.” See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/26/AR2008102602162_pf.html
Phil