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Black Voices Through Art and Poetry
On Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, the African American Cultural Center (AACC) hosted its first gallery...
Media, Music & Meat Pies
On Aug. 22, 2022, the Witherspoon Student Centers hosted a Block Party. The Block Party was the...
HERMonies: Black Activism in Music
On Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, the African American Cultural Center (AACC) and the Women’s Center...
What’s On The Table?: Updates on the African-American Cultural Center Staff, Programming and Events
Upcoming events and updates from the African American-Cultural Center.
Blacks in Wax Brings Black History to Life
On Feb. 23, the African American Cultural Center hosted its 12th annual Blacks in Wax Live Museum in Witherspoon Student Center. NC State students and volunteers portrayed African Americans of their choosing and gave a short summary about the figures.
New Exhibit Features Art from Wolfpack, Counternarratives About the Black Body
The opening of “The Politicization and Sexualization of Black Bodies” exhibition was held on Feb. 11 in Witherspoon Student Center. The exhibition features the artistic works of NC State students, faculty and staff that tell their counternarratives and experiences of self-image and acceptance within higher education and historically white institutions.
AACC Introduces New Fellowship Opportunity, Announces Faculty Fellows
Graphic by Keilah Davis/Nubian Message. Photos contributed by AACC Faculty Fellows. Kennysha Woods...
Radical Revolutionaries: Symone Sanders Commemorates MLK at NC State
On January 17, Symone Sanders, a CNN commentator and press secretary for the 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, gave the MLK Campus Commemoration speech entitled “MLK, Jr.: The Realist.”
“I Am A Man” Exhibit Opening
The “I Am A Man” exhibit opened in the African American Cultural Center Gallery on January 16. The exhibit offers a collection of artwork and virtual reality experience by NC State students of professors Dr. Derek Ham and Scott Townsend, and the exhibit explores the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike of 1968 and the events leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death. The exhibit will be open until February 4.
Social Justice January Goes “Beyond the Buzzwords”
On January 23, Campus Community Centers will join together to host the annual Social Justice January, a day dedicated to teaching members of the campus community about various subjects relating to social justice and activism. There will be four workshops held between 11:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. in the community centers on main campus. This year’s theme is “Beyond the Buzzwords.”
