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Nov 17, 2022

AACC Showcases For the Love of Art

On Oct. 19, the African American Cultural Center (AACC) hosted the opening reception for their latest art gallery entitled For the Love of Art. This art gallery is the second solo exhibit of the work of Bryce Cobbs, an artist and creator, whose gallery portrays Black Beauty with different mediums in a soft and diverse…

Sep 8, 2022

Black Voices Through Art and Poetry

On Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, the African American Cultural Center (AACC) hosted its first gallery opening of the semester: HerBlackHand – A Conversational Piece. This gallery was the first of its kind done by the AACC. The gallery differed from previous ones as it had works from multiple artists and used various mediums for the…

Sep 8, 2022

Media, Music & Meat Pies

On Aug. 22, 2022, the Witherspoon Student Centers hosted a Block Party. The Block Party was the kickoff to the first week of school. The event took place from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. with festivities occurring on Harris Field and on all three floors. The purpose was to give incoming students a chance to…

Feb 17, 2022

HERMonies: Black Activism in Music

On Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, the African American Cultural Center (AACC) and the Women’s Center hosted a grand opening reception for their joint gallery. The gallery is entitled “HERMonies: Black Sounds, Black Voices, Black Movement.” The exhibition opened with the Uninhibited Praise Gospel Choir (UPGC) who sang “Stand Up,” as adapted from the 2019 movie…

Aug 29, 2019

What’s On The Table?: Updates on the African-American Cultural Center Staff, Programming and Events

Upcoming events and updates from the African American-Cultural Center.

Feb 28, 2019

Blacks in Wax Brings Black History to Life

On Feb. 23, the African American Cultural Center hosted its 12th annual Blacks in Wax Live Museum in Witherspoon Student Center. NC State students and volunteers portrayed African Americans of their choosing and gave a short summary about the figures.

Feb 14, 2019

New Exhibit Features Art from Wolfpack, Counternarratives About the Black Body

The opening of “The Politicization and Sexualization of Black Bodies” exhibition was held on Feb. 11 in Witherspoon Student Center. The exhibition features the artistic works of NC State students, faculty and staff that tell their counternarratives and experiences of self-image and acceptance within higher education and historically white institutions.

Jan 31, 2019

AACC Introduces New Fellowship Opportunity, Announces Faculty Fellows

Graphic by Keilah Davis/Nubian Message. Photos contributed by AACC Faculty Fellows. Kennysha Woods | Managing Editor The African American Cultural Center Faculty Fellowship Program (AACC FFP) is a new semester-long fellowship that supports NC State faculty members’ research endeavors into African-American and African diasporic cultures. In an email interview with Nubian Message, Sachelle Ford, the assistant…

Jan 17, 2019

Radical Revolutionaries: Symone Sanders Commemorates MLK at NC State

On January 17, Symone Sanders, a CNN commentator and press secretary for the 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, gave the MLK Campus Commemoration speech entitled “MLK, Jr.: The Realist.”

Jan 17, 2019

“I Am A Man” Exhibit Opening

The "I Am A Man" exhibit opened in the African American Cultural Center Gallery on January 16. The exhibit offers a collection of artwork and virtual reality experience by NC State students of professors Dr. Derek Ham and Scott Townsend, and the exhibit explores the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike of 1968 and the events leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death. The exhibit will be open until February 4.

Jan 17, 2019

Social Justice January Goes “Beyond the Buzzwords”

On January 23, Campus Community Centers will join together to host the annual Social Justice January, a day dedicated to teaching members of the campus community about various subjects relating to social justice and activism. There will be four workshops held between 11:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. in the community centers on main campus. This year’s theme is “Beyond the Buzzwords.”

Dec 7, 2018

AACC Hosts 2018 Kwanzaa Celebration

On Thursday, Dec. 6, the African American Cultural Center (AACC) hosted its annual Kwanzaa celebration in Witherspoon Campus Cinema. Student leaders and staff introduced the seven principles—Nguzo Saba—of Kwanzaa in the order they are celebrated: Umoja, Kujichagulia...