Events
Panel Discussion
Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth

The recently unveiled mural of Septima P. Clark in the Education Center at the College of Charleston will serve as a backdrop for a March 28 conversation on the civil rights icon’s life and legacy. A 7:30 p.m. panel discussion at the center will include five contributor
Ukweli, is the Swahili word for truth. The book follows a 2020 poetry-lecture series at McLeod Plantation organ
Brown is co-founder and project director of an oral history initiative to identify the “first children,
Savannah Frierson, a Ukweli contribut
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In addition to the Septima P. Clark mural, information panels in the Education Center present the periods ofClark’s life. Essays, interviews and a range of primary sources represent the online material the college has posted to tell Clark’s story as an educator and civil rights champion who Martin Luther King Jr. called the mother of the movement.
In addition to the Septima P. Clark mural, information panels in the Education Center present the periods ofClark’s life. Essays, interviews and a range of primary sources represent the online material the college has posted to tell Clark’s story as an educator and civil rights champion who Martin Luther King Jr. called the mother of the movement.
Afro-Latino Travels with Kim Haas
Join the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program in welcoming Kim Hass
Rita Hollings Science Center, Rm 101
College of Charleston
58 Coming Street, Charleston, SC 29401
Wednesday, April 19th
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM(ET)
Kim Haas is Executive Producer, Host and Creator of Afro-Latino Travels with Kim Haas, a travel show celebrating the African influence in Latin America. She has traveled extensively throughout Latin America. Kim has been active in Afro-Latino issues for more than a decade and is founder of losafrolatinos.com, a blog celebrating Afro Latino culture. Kim speaks fluent Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Her undergraduate and graduate degrees are in Spanish. Kim is the owner of Haas Media LLC, a multilingual community outreach, translation services, and communications firm located in the greater New York City area.
Conseula Francis
Emerging Scholar Lecture Series
Every academic year, the African American Studies Program invites a junior scholar to share new and exciting research with the campus community. The late Professor Conseula Francis (1973–2016), the former director of the African American Studies Program, established the series to support the work of emerging scholars in the field of African American Studies. As our director, Professor Francis not only advocated for her students, but remained deeply committed to mentoring and supporting junior faculty, and we have named this lecture series in her memory to commemorate her unflagging commitment to our program and the work of junior scholars.- 2020-2021 Dr. Jason E. Shelton
"The Death of the Black Church" - 2019-2020 Dr. Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
"The Issue of Females" - 2018-2019 Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey
"Hip-Hop as Social Justice" - 2018-2019 Sami Schalk
"Black Women's Speculative Fiction and the Deconstruction of Able-Mindedness" - 2017-2018 Clifton Granby
"Resilient Injustices, Unyielding Resolve" - 2017-2018 Deirdre Cooper Owens
"Medical Bondage: How Slavery Advanced American Gynecology" - 2016-2017 Vanessa Agard-Jones
"After the End of the World: A Black Feminist Analytic for the Anthropocene" - 2015–2016 Sarah Haley
The Carceral Life of Gender: Convict Labor, Jim Crow Modernity, and Black Feminist Refusal” - 2014–2015 Ibram X. Kendi
Black Students and Black Studies: A Founding History, 1966–1970” - 2013–2014 Jason Shelton
Blacks and Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions”
Artist Lecture Series
The Artist Lecture Series celebrates the value of artistic expression by inviting artists of all types to share their art and their insights into how art itself is a form of social discourse. The lectures in this series, then, follow in the spirit of what the novelist Ralph Ellison said of music, namely that “it gives significance to all those indefinable aspects of experience which nevertheless help to make us what we are…reminding us of what we were and of that toward which we aspire.”
- 2017-2018 Lyle Ashton Harris
- 2016-2017 Dexter Thomas
- 2015–2016 Amaud Jamaul Johnson
- 2014–2015 9th Wonder
- 2013–2014 Alfred Conteh
African American Studies Film Series
The African American Studies Program sponsors a film series every semester that is open to the public. Each series explores a particular theme such as mass incarceration and cultural connections between African Americans and Asians.
African American Studies Book Discussion Series
The African American Studies Book Discussion Series brings together College of Charleston faculty, staff, and students to have informal discussions about significant texts in the field of African American Studies. We select one book to discuss each semester and provide a limited number of copies of the books to participants.
Previous Book Selections:
- Fran Ross, Oreo (Spring 2019)
- Joan Morgan, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost (Fall 2018)
- Claudia Rankine, Citizen (Spring 2018)
- Craig Steven Wilder, Ebony and Ivy (Fall 2017)
- Octavia Butler, Kindred (Spring 2017)
- Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract (Fall 2016)
African American Studies Teach-Ins
To fulfill the African American Studies Program's commitment to community engagement, the Program periodically organizes teach-ins to raise awareness of pressing contemporary issues and to provide tools for proactively addressing these issues.
Previous Teach-Ins:
- Fall 2016 Tools for Navigating Post-Election America
- Fall 2015 Police Brutality
Afro-Feminism and Resistance in Brazil

Sabbatical Presentation
Black Studies and the Ethics of Historical Privacy
When Archival Silences Are Acts of Refusal

Addlestone Library: Room 227
205 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC
Thursday, March 23, 2023
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM(ET)
Black Studies scholars often have sought to recover Black voices that have been excluded, marginalized, or erased from mainstream scholarship as a form of reclamation, and as a corrective to research that excludes Black people, and therefore distorts, our understanding of the world in which we live. But what if some of these Black voices don't want to be found? What claims to privacy do the dead have? This talk offers answers to these questions and will be part of a collection of essays Professor Crabtree is writing on ethical praxis and the craft of writing in Black Studies.
Afro-Latino Travels with Kim Haas
Join the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program in welcoming Kim Hass
Rita Hollings Science Center, Rm 101
College of Charleston
58 Coming Street, Charleston, SC 29401
Wednesday, April 19th
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM(ET)
Kim Haas is Executive Producer, Host and Creator of Afro-Latino Travels with Kim Haas, a travel show celebrating the African influence in Latin America. She has traveled extensively throughout Latin America. Kim has been active in Afro-Latino issues for more than a decade and is founder of losafrolatinos.com, a blog celebrating Afro Latino culture. Kim speaks fluent Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Her undergraduate and graduate degrees are in Spanish. Kim is the owner of Haas Media LLC, a multilingual community outreach, translation services, and communications firm located in the greater New York City area.
Conseula Francis Emerging Scholar Lecture Series
Every academic year, the African American Studies Program invites a junior scholar to share new and exciting research with the campus community. The late Professor Conseula Francis (1973–2016), the former director of the African American Studies Program, established the series to support the work of emerging scholars in the field of African American Studies. As our director, Professor Francis not only advocated for her students, but remained deeply committed to mentoring and supporting junior faculty, and we have named this lecture series in her memory to commemorate her unflagging commitment to our program and the work of junior scholars.- 2020-2021 Dr. Jason E. Shelton
"The Death of the Black Church" - 2019-2020 Dr. Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
"The Issue of Females" - 2018-2019 Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey
"Hip-Hop as Social Justice" - 2018-2019 Sami Schalk
"Black Women's Speculative Fiction and the Deconstruction of Able-Mindedness" - 2017-2018 Clifton Granby
"Resilient Injustices, Unyielding Resolve" - 2017-2018 Deirdre Cooper Owens
"Medical Bondage: How Slavery Advanced American Gynecology" - 2016-2017 Vanessa Agard-Jones
"After the End of the World: A Black Feminist Analytic for the Anthropocene" - 2015–2016 Sarah Haley
The Carceral Life of Gender: Convict Labor, Jim Crow Modernity, and Black Feminist Refusal” - 2014–2015 Ibram X. Kendi
Black Students and Black Studies: A Founding History, 1966–1970” - 2013–2014 Jason Shelton
Blacks and Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions”
Artist Lecture Series
The Artist Lecture Series celebrates the value of artistic expression by inviting artists of all types to share their art and their insights into how art itself is a form of social discourse. The lectures in this series, then, follow in the spirit of what the novelist Ralph Ellison said of music, namely that “it gives significance to all those indefinable aspects of experience which nevertheless help to make us what we are…reminding us of what we were and of that toward which we aspire.”
- 2017-2018 Lyle Ashton Harris
- 2016-2017 Dexter Thomas
- 2015–2016 Amaud Jamaul Johnson
- 2014–2015 9th Wonder
- 2013–2014 Alfred Conteh
African American Studies Film Series
The African American Studies Program sponsors a film series every semester that is open to the public. Each series explores a particular theme such as mass incarceration and cultural connections between African Americans and Asians.
African American Studies Book Discussion Series
The African American Studies Book Discussion Series brings together College of Charleston faculty, staff, and students to have informal discussions about significant texts in the field of African American Studies. We select one book to discuss each semester and provide a limited number of copies of the books to participants.
Previous Book Selections:
- Fran Ross, Oreo (Spring 2019)
- Joan Morgan, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost (Fall 2018)
- Claudia Rankine, Citizen (Spring 2018)
- Craig Steven Wilder, Ebony and Ivy (Fall 2017)
- Octavia Butler, Kindred (Spring 2017)
- Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract (Fall 2016)
African American Studies Teach-Ins
To fulfill the African American Studies Program's commitment to community engagement, the Program periodically organizes teach-ins to raise awareness of pressing contemporary issues and to provide tools for proactively addressing these issues.
Previous Teach-Ins:
- Fall 2016 Tools for Navigating Post-Election America
- Fall 2015 Police Brutality