Noted biographer and scholar of African American literature and Black feminist studies Shanna Greene Benjamin will join the Wake Forest University faculty as professor of African American Studies in July.
Sierra DeVeaux will graduate as the first African American Studies major in the history of Wake Forest University. DeVeaux made the decision to major in African American Studies just before her senior year and found a discipline and faculty altogether […]
African American Studies student Ashley Davis ’23 was recently accepted into the 2022 Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Institute which will be held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York. Ashley will join a cohort of students from across the nation selected […]
A recent Old Gold & Black Deacon Profile featured Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities and director of the Program in African American Studies Corey D. B. Walker.
Julia S. Jordan-Zachery discusses Black women and depression in her in Harper’s Bazaar.
The Program in African American Studies at Wake Forest University was featured in two news stories on WGHP TV and Spectrum News.
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, 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.
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.
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 […]