The Africana Studies Program hosts lectures and performances during the academic year, many of them open to the general public, in order to foster an intellectual environment that contributes to critical thinking in the tradition of a liberal arts education and to expose the wider Gettysburg community to African American and global African intellectual and cultural work plus issues of social justice and diversity. At the beginning of each semester, please check this website for upcoming events, or write chelfric@gettysburg.edu to receive this information by email. For events sponsored by the Africana Studies Program in recent years, please browse our Past Presentations page. 

For those interested in exploring African and African American life on their own, please visit Black Cinema - Not Film Noir or browse through our listing of interesting websites.    

The Africana Studies Program offers a number of ways in which students can enhance their studies and activities here at Gettysburg College. Please note in particular:

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