The black-and-white photography exhibit explores the history and traditions of camp meetings that take place annually in the Carolinas.
In the wake of the Emanuel AME Church shooting, the College is hosting a number of events that address race relations in the United States, black culture, and civil rights.
"Hush Harbor: An Exhibition of Student Designs for a Monument to the Courage of Those Who Suffered During the Atlantic Slave Trade" is opening on May 6 in the third-floor hallway of the Albert Simons Center for the Arts. The design proposals, a project for an art history course, are for a memorial to be installed outside the future International African American Museum on Charleston Harbor.
The College's African American Studies Program will host a lecture on black student activism in the Civil Rights Movement at 6 p.m. on April 9, 2015.
Professor of African American history Mari Crabtree will give a talk on March 11, 2015, titled “My Soul is a Witness: Theorizing Racial Violence with the Blues.”
Students want their voice to be part of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. They've organized a discussion and film screening on campus that they hope will start a dialogue.
Grammy Award-winning producer 9th Wonder will speak at the College of Charleston on October 6, 2014. This event is free and open to the public.
African American studies is the newest major at the College, and a renowned scholar and hip hop producer will help to kick it off.
In fall 2014, you'll find new academic majors and minors, like urban studies and entrepreneurship, as well as two brand-new, high-tech facilities.
As she heads to Harvard for leadership training this summer, Patricia Williams Lessane reflects on the Avery Center's expanded research and public programs.
