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2009

• November 17, 2009
  JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Assistant Professor of Women’s and Ethnic Studies: The Women’s and Ethnic Studies Program (WEST) at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is seeking a tenure-track assistant professor focused on Africana/Black studies with a domestic and transnational perspective. Details
• October 19, 2009
  ANNOUNCEMENT: The Black Studies Program Faculty Affiliate Status is available to all regular University of Missouri faculty engaged in research, teaching, and service centered on the experiences and initiatives of people of African descent in Africa, the United States, or the Diaspora.
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• October 1, 2009
  ANNOUNCEMENT: The University of Missouri seeks an Associate Professor or Professor to serve as Director of the Black Studies Program. Nominations and applications are being accepted for this tenured position. Qualified candidates are expected to be eligible for a tenured faculty appointment in a relevant department.
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• September 21, 2009
  ANNOUNCEMENT: 40th Anniversary of African American Studies in Academia Special edition of The Tavis Smiley Show from PRI, where host Tavis Smiley is joined by four distinguished scholars within the world of African American studies to remember the journey and chart the collective paths into the future.
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• August 31, 2009
  Nerds of Mizzou: Nerd in dreadlocks
• August 24, 2009
  ANNOUNCEMENT: Women & Gender Studies Program seeks a scholar whose primary research and teaching interests focus on African American and gender topics
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• August 24, 2009
  ANNOUNCEMENT: A second section of English 3400 WI *Survey of African American Literature) course has been opened and will meet on Tuesday/Thursday 12:30-1:45 in Middlebush 308.
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• July 31, 2009
  Mid-American Alliance for African Studies (MAAAS) call for papers
• July 29, 2009
  The people's intellectual: MU professor plans to take over Sudan
• Mid-American Alliance for African Studies (MAAAS) call for papers
• July 21, 2009
  ANNOUNCEMENT: The MU Committee on Undergraduate Education has approved BLSTU2000 (Introduction to Black Studies) as a General Education course that now can fulfill students' General Education - Social requirements.
• July 9, 2009
  Some reparations work for "Enslaved African-Americans" via H. Con. Res. 135"
• April 14, 2009
  "Call and Response": Documentary on Contemporary Human Trafficking
• March 25, 2009
  Pioneering Historian John Hope Franklin Dies at 94"
• March 17, 2009
  Enroll in a May 18-29 Summer Intercession Class: "The Sociological Significance of Barack Obama"
• March 8, 2009
  Adrienne Walker Hoard: A weekly peek at an area artist
• Feb. 3, 2009
  U.S. Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Black Studies Programs, MU observes Black History Month with acclaimed author Noliwe Rooks lecture on Black Studies in the 21st Century
• Feb. 2, 2009
  MU Black History Month explores the history and status of Americans from the African diaspora
• Feb. 2, 2009
  Famous figures, famous speeches

2008

• Nov. 18, 2008
  MU Researcher Tests Interactions of Traditional African Treatment and HIV drugs
• Oct. 30, 2008
  MU Expert Releases New Book that Examines Human Rights Violations in the U.S.
• Jan. 23, 2008
  Founding Father Descendant Establishes Slavery Atonement Endowment

2007

• Oct. 19, 2007
  A historian makes history: Arvarh Strickland gets andother first, a building named for him