AAS@Wake featured in recent news stories
The Program in African American Studies at Wake Forest University was featured in two news stories on WGHP TV and Spectrum News.
Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities Corey D. B. Walker on January 6 and American Democracy
In hindsight, Virginia was a testing ground and a grim portent of the Jan. 6 insurrection. On the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in January 2020, theologian Corey D.B. Walker, then a visiting professor at the University of Richmond, was among a group holding a […]
Cornel West, renowned philosopher, social activist, author and scholar coming to Wake Forest
Cornel West, renowned philosopher, social activist, author and scholar, will speak at Wake Forest University on November 4 and 5. His appearance is jointly sponsored by the School of Divinity Mac Bryan Prophetic Preaching Series and the African American Studies program.
Prof. Julia S. Jordan-Zachary’s commentary in The Washington Post – “The media loves ‘missing White women.’ Black women are already missing from public view.”
You cannot miss what is not seen. Because U.S. society often renders Black women invisible, public outcry may be muted or absent when we go missing.
New African American Studies program underway
Wake Forest University has been working to establish an African American Studies program for a few years. Last week’s launch of the program is timely given the country is experiencing increased racial tensions, states are passing stricter voting laws and virtually everybody is uttering the […]
Deepening the Liberal Arts
Corey D. B. Walker, the Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, is the inaugural director of the African American Studies Program, which will launch in the fall as a major at Wake Forest. He is jointly appointed in the Department of English and the Interdisciplinary […]
Dr. Melanie L. Harris joins African American Studies faculty
The Program in African American Studies and the Wake Forest University School of Divinity will welcome Dr. Melanie L. Harris as a new member of the faculty on July 1. Dr. Harris will join as professor of Religion, Black Feminist Studies and Womanist Theology and […]
New African American Studies Program supported by $1M gift
As Wake Forest prepares to launch its African American Studies Program this fall, an anonymous donor has made a $1 million gift to support the new academic initiative.
