WSU Department of African American Studies

05/13/2026

05/11/2026

This Friday--free and open to the public!

05/10/2026

AFS been putting in work

06/04/2025

This year's Detroit Metro Times fiction issue features artists and writers of color including V Efua Prince, Professor of African American Studies. "This special issue was born out of a deep commitment to creative solidarity and a belief that storytelling could offer connection, grounding, guidance, and resistance. As a community, we have learned to cope with the ongoing health crisis. We continue to face intentional attempts to disrupt and endanger our peace and liberated lives."

This year’s theme, “documented/undocumented,” explores the boundaries between what is recorded and what is erased, what is visible and what is obscured, what is named and what is deliberately left out

05/14/2025

Congratulations to Dr. V Efua Prince whose most recent book Kin received the 2025 Next Generation Indie Book Award for African American Fiction.

04/11/2025

Let's celebrate our very own Dr. Melba Joyce Boyd, Michigan's Poet Laureate ❤️🥳💐

12/10/2024

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/09/nx-s1-5222858/nikki-giovanni-poet-obituary

The poet and activist was a leading figure of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni was working on her upcoming book of poetry, set to publish in the fall.