RESOURCES

=AFR 101 Introduction to African American Studies Syllabus Fall 2011= = = =MULTIMEDIA=

African Americans in American Politics -Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture
= = = = =VIDEO= Below are links to an assortment of video clips including comments by authors read in class as well as other clips relating to course content.

Dr. Cornel West
=ADDITIONAL READING=

Carter G. Woodson's The Mis-Education of the Negro

=IN THE NEWS=

Alabama Property Tax Trial
===="...a federal lawsuit that argues Alabama's property tax system discriminates against black Alabama schoolchildren and is unconstitutional." (2011)====

Sanitation workers at whitehouse
Surviving members of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike (MLK's "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech) visit White House for first time in their lives. (2011)

Judge Admonished for KKK Comment (2011)

Two different incidents in which black males were threatened with nooses by fellow students.
 * California (2011)
 * Virginia (2011)