WVSU Cultural Activities

02/04/2022

An inquiry into Black History Month, 10 years ago.

More Than A Month now streaming free! MORE THAN A MONTH (2012, PBS)Shukree Hassan Tilghman, an African-American filmmaker, sets out on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. Through this thoughtful and humorous journey, he explores what the treatment of history tells us about race and....

02/02/2022

01/23/2022

An excellent read for Black History Month. Or, a gift.

Carter G. Woodson's Appeal

01/23/2022

“… the environmental justice implications… centered partially around a chemical plant in Institute, a majority Black community that is home to a historically Black university?”

“Are you saying that the DEP doesn’t understand what environmental justice is?”

01/19/2022

The family of Brigadier General Charles McGee says he has died at the age of 102. McGee was one of the last known surviving Tuskegee Airman.

12/24/2021

New book by McDowell County, WV native, coming soon:

After Coal Tom Hansell

09/20/2021

WVSU’s Anthony Young: “All of the work is focusing on… community, family and the intimacy within those.”

Introducing creatives of color to watch, today and in the coming years. They are artists who make Greater Boston a brighter, more dynamic place and enrich the public sphere.

08/07/2021

Happy anniversary.

The best BBQ in the Charleston, WV area. We smoke pork, ribs and more on-site. Dine in our fun, relaxed atmosphere or let us cater your next event.

08/05/2021

Harlem Cultural Festival. Something to tell students about.
“I knew something very very important was happening in Harlem that day. It wasn’t just about the music.”
- Gladys Knight

In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary—part music film, part historical record cr...

07/31/2021

“… historical correlation between Morrill’s well-intentioned ‘state universities for all’ and Lincoln’s legacy signature of the Emancipation Proclamation… both pieces of transformational legislation were hindered, undermined, and null to millions of Blacks bound by the defiant, segregationist laws of the South.”

The Second Morrill Act of 1890 required the former Confederate states to establish Historically Black Land-Grant Universities.

01/14/2021

Veteran editor, producer, and director Sam Pollard is among cinema’s most dedicated chroniclers of the Black experience in America, moving freely across film and long-form television as well as narrative and documentary for the past four decades. From his collaborations with St. Clair Bourne, Henr...