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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 31, 2019

Q&A with Symone Sanders

Nubian Message sat with Symone Sanders, the 2019 MLK Commemoration speaker, to talk politics, her path to success and what it means to be an effective politician.

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

Flashback: 1966, Dr. King Visits NC State

Photo Courtesy of Library of Congress. Erin Elliot | Correspondent Throughout the years, NC State has invited incredibly dynamic speakers to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and birthday. NC State has joined alongside other institutions in hosting events that extend a week long in his honor, emphasizing his global impact and how his contributions will continue…

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

Letter From the Editor: New Year

Hello Lovely People and welcome back! Happy new year and all that jazz. I hope the first weeks of class weren’t too overwhelming (besides apparently apocalyptic ice and snow) and that you have a class in there for you. I understand we’re all here for a degree, but don’t forget to enrich yourself too. Take…

Jan 26, 2017

Campus MLK commemoration features TV anchor, Roland

Dion Figueroa | Correspondent As a part of NC State’s 2017 Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration NC State’s African-American Cultural Center invited television personality, author, and journalist Roland Martin to speak at Talley Student Union’s Stewart Theatre. Despite having originally been scheduled for the 9th of January and rescheduled due to the wintry weather around the beginning…

Jan 19, 2017

MLK film describes his final days

Dion Figueroa | Correspondent On Thursday January 12th, NCSU Libraries, along with the Black Jedi Zulu Durham Chapter, hosted a film viewing and Q&A session at State’s D.H. Hill library. The event was held in commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. A modest crowd filled the auditorium in the Library’s West Wing to…

Jan 19, 2017

Reclaim MLK march demands action

Crowd members circle in front of the North Carolina State Capitol building to listen to speakers during the ReclaimMLK March at Raleigh on Jan. 16, 2017.  Many individuals who spoke were students from UNC Chapel Hill and NC State University, highlighting issues that included the privatization of higher education, police brutality, and North Carolina House Bill…

Jan 22, 2014

We Don’t Mean No Disrespect, But…

  This unsigned editorial is the opinion of the Nubian Message’s editorial board, and is the responsibility of the editor-in-chief.    Martin had a dream and it was not his face on the cover of party promotional fliers. After his death in 1963, many advocated for his birthday to become a federal holiday and it…