African American Cultural Center

Oct 7, 2022

AACC Takes on Healthy Campus Week

On Tuesday, Sept. 20th and Friday, Sept 23rd, 2022, the African American Cultural Center (AACC) held two programs for Healthy Campus Week. Both programs were interactive mini-events held on Witherspoon field, crafted to uplift Black students while shedding light on the importance of students managing their mental health and being aware of campus resources.  On…

Apr 14, 2022

Folk Nouveau: Folktales Mixed With Reality

On April 5th, 2022, the African American Cultural Center (AACC) opened its new art exhibit: Folk Nouveau: Myth, Magic, and Resistance which featured the artwork of Ajani Anderson. Anderson is an artist from Durham, North Carolina, and holds a B.A. in African American Diaspora Studies and Art History. The art exhibit opened with attendees walking…

Apr 14, 2022

Reclaiming Our Roots: What’s in a name? What’s in a family?

On Apr. 7, 2022, the Black Students Board (BSB) hosted the Pan-Afrikan week event titled Reclaiming Our Roots. The event took place in the African American Cultural Center (AACC) located on the third floor of the Witherspoon Student Center. The goal of this event was to facilitate an intergenerational conversation amongst Black students and faculty…

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…

Feb 17, 2022

Creating Spaces to Be Free

Being a Black student at a PWI is no small feat by any means. Our very existence here is living proof that the struggles of those who came before us were for a reason. The trials that our ancestors had to go through against racism and the many systems that hold it in place have…

Sep 20, 2021

Sankofa: Learning From the Past To Build The Future

A small room covered with the history that inspires the future. The Sankofa exhibition opened Friday, Sept. 10 at the African American Cultural Center (AACC) and it was an experience like no other.  As the doors of the exhibition opened, the guests were greeted with music and photography of important moments of Black students at…

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.