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Mar 26, 2024

A Roadmap to Equity, Freedom, and Justice

On Jan. 16, a group of North Carolina State University scholars gathered for a keynote panel titled, “Persistence: A Roadmap to Equity, Freedom, and Justice” for Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration week. Dr. King’s words, “Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle” is a guiding compass for the future of…

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.

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

I Am A Man: AACC Gallery Honors MLK

The African American Cultural Center Gallery opened their doors on January 16 to honor the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with an exhibit that recognized and illustrated the work that he did in the Civil Rights Movement, the leader he was, and the huge imprint he left on this world. The exhibit entitled ‘I Am A Man’ is a collection of artwork designed by second-year students from the 2017-2018 academic year under the direction of Dr. Derek Ham and Scott Townsend, professors in the College of Design.

Jan 20, 2018

Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration at NC state

David Tracey/ Staff Photographer Quote from Reverend James Lawson as part The “I Am A Man” virtual reality exhibit, on display at the African American Cultural Center. The exhibit runs from Jan. 10 through Feb. 6, found on the 2nd floor of Witherspoon Student Center. Yesenia Jones | Staff Writer The month of January encompasses many…

Jan 20, 2018

Remembering the True Politics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Aaron Sanchez Guerra | Guest Columnist As is often the case with many philosophically profound phenomena in our society, like the Old Testament or Ralph Waldo Emerson’s mid-19th century transcendentalist musings, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is sold off in packaged, polished fragments in high-school senior quotes, mugs and t-shirts, and also in brief tweets…