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News and announcements

  • The District Detroit Awards Arts & Culture Neighborhood History Study and Report to Wayne State University May 9, 2025
  • 'Focus: Black Oklahoma': real change, moral courage, new 'Culture and Music' series April 29, 2025
  • Detroit native Dr. Melba Joyce Boyd named Michigan’s third-ever poet laureate April 4, 2025
  • Green Book in Michigan: Inside the mission to preserve Black travel sites March 12, 2025
  • Black History Month – African Americans and labor February 10, 2025
  • Tiff Massey’s ‘7 Mile & Livernois’ exhibition isn’t just about a neighborhood – it’s a tribute to Black Detroit December 6, 2024
  • Wayne State University honors creation of African American studies department and student protests that birthed it 35 years ago April 15, 2024
  • 'No empire lasts forever': Here's what gives these ESSENCE 'Black futures now' honorees hope for our future February 29, 2024
  • Black Scare / Red Scare with Charisse Burden-Stelly December 20, 2023
  • Damon J. Keith Center’s 8th Biennial Lecture explores race and justice through poetry and music December 5, 2023
  • Author discussion on American slavery today October 31, 2023
  • A conversation with Nakia-Renne Wallace, co-leader of Detroit Will Breathe July 14, 2020
  • WSU CLAS professors among Detroit Today panelists examining missing links in Black history February 23, 2015
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Department of African American Studies

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Detroit, MI 48202

313-577-2321 | afamstudies@wayne.edu

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4841 Cass Ave., Detroit, MI 48201
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