July 17, 2020
By Nate Galvan | galvanna@sonoma.edu
Due to the country's current conversations around systemic racism and the continued disenfranchisement of Black people in America, professor Dr. Kimberly Hester Williams and...
american multicultural studies
November 1, 2018
Every semester Professor Christina N. Baker-Foley asks her students to name a black film director. Spike Lee and Tyler Perry come to mind to most. Some students more film savvy might say Ryan Coogler, director of Marvel’s Black Panther or recent Academy Award Best Picture winner ...
August 29, 2017
Sonoma State University's Africana Multicultural Studies Lecture Series explores the relevance of presentations and discussions that focus on historical and contemporary topics relating to people of African descent. The lecture series...
March 27, 2015
On April 21, Penngrove native Maria Gitin will read from her memoir, "This Bright Light of Ours: Stories from the Voting Rights Fight," as part of Sonoma State University's Africana Lecture Series.
Gitin's memoir details the dramatic...
October 1, 2015
A Sonoma State University professor has released volume one of the Journal of Civil and Human Rights, a first of its kind academic publication surrounding the freedom struggles of modern U.S. history.
The journal focuses on the civil rights history of African Americans, Latinos, the LGBT...
