News and announcements
- Ahead of his graduation from Wayne State, Detroit civil rights leader Heaster Wheeler recounts his educational journey
- Detroit native Dr. Melba Joyce Boyd named Michigan’s third-ever poet laureate
- Green Book in Michigan: Inside the mission to preserve Black travel sites
- Join us for Giving Day
- Wayne State students explore Black history through archival research
- Black History Month – African Americans and labor
- Wayne State University celebrates Black History Month
- A message from African American Studies Chair Ollie Johnson: February 2025
- Detroit Pistons honor Malcolm X with special retail capsule
- African American studies faculty and staff highlights February 2025
- Wayne State University to host 25th annual celebration of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
- Tiff Massey’s ‘7 Mile & Livernois’ exhibition isn’t just about a neighborhood – it’s a tribute to Black Detroit
- Fulbright Scholar Award takes Professor Daphne Ntiri to University of Namibia
- Wayne State celebrates first-generation students, social mobility
- Conversations, Engagements and Responses to James Baldwin’s Centennial
- Detroiter, interactive artist hails the Black quilting tradition ahead of Juneteenth workshop at WSU
- Wayne State University honors creation of African American studies department and student protests that birthed it 35 years ago
- Department of African American Studies to celebrate 35th anniversary of student protest that led to department’s creation
- Reclaiming space, writing their own history
- 'No empire lasts forever': Here's what gives these ESSENCE 'Black futures now' honorees hope for our future
- AFAM Studies Newsletter Winter 2024
- Winter 2024: A Message from Department Chair, Ollie Johnson
- Meet new faculty members Professors Kefentse Chike and Navid Farnia
- Save the date: Celebrating 35 years of the Department of African American Studies
- EngageD Newsletter: Celebrating Black history