Why African American Studies?
Our curriculum helps students learn how to define, measure, interpret and validate Black experiences. Graduates leave us ready to think and to act in order to solve the unstructured problems that confront Black communities.
Learn more about the value of a degree in African American studies.
News
May 2, 2024
Mellon Foundation grants will help VCU professors launch Richmond Freedom School
Elizabeth Canfield, Ph.D., with the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, and Mignonne Guy, Ph.D., with the Department of African American Studies, are developing a new program for the Richmond community.
April 18, 2024
‘We are diversity’: Five VCU community members honored at the 2024 PACME ceremony
Shawn Utsey, recipient of the Riese-Melton Award, notes ‘how much work we still have to do. We cannot afford to become complacent in the face of injustice.’
April 2, 2024
VCU students, faculty document oral history of the East Marshall Street Well Project
The Health Humanities Lab, a research lab at VCU’s Humanities Research Center, is conducting the project in collaboration with the Family Representative Council.