When people think about family planning in Africa, they often picture women visiting clinics, women making decisions, and ...

AFS 113 Themes in African Studies (1 Credit) This course asks the question of what it means to study Africa. As the world’s second largest and most linguistically and culturally diverse continent, ...

Five years after the African Studies program criticized University administration over a lack of faculty recruitment and retention, some faculty members say progress has been made to increase its ...

The African Diaspora Cluster presents the 4th annual M. Jacqui Alexander Lecture in African Diaspora Studies. Alexis Pauline Gumbs will be having a conversation with African and African American ...

Welcome to Advanced Placement African American Studies. The course – still in pilot mode – has drawn praise from students nationwide but sparked restrictions in Florida and Arkansas amid ...

Colin Kaepernick, African art: AP African American studies reworked after controversy Florida education officials, saying the course "lacked educational value," rejected the class, but the course ...

This fall, the AP African American Studies course will be piloted at hundreds of other high schools before it is widely offered in fall 2024. Here's what the most recent version will include.

Robert J. Patterson, a professor of African American studies at Georgetown University who co-chaired a committee that developed the course, said the overview was not edited in any way in response ...

The new A.P. course in African-American studies will include the civil rights movement. Here, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads marchers at the start of a five-day voting-rights march to Montgomery ...

Rashad Brown teaches Advanced Placement African American Studies at Maynard Jackson High School in February 2023. State Schools Superintendent Richard Woods did not approve the course after its ...

African American studies—also known as Black or Africana studies—explores the history of people of African descent, the legacy of slavery, and how racism pervades our social structures like ...