As we distance ourselves to help stop the spread of a deadly virus, a new department is being built within Michigan State University’s College of Arts & Letters — the Department of African American and African Studies (AAAS).
At the helm of this momentous effort are Ruth Nicole Brown, Inaugural Chair of AAAS, and Tamura Lomax, Founding Associate Professor.
“We are meeting, working, desiring, and actively dreaming up this new department in a global pandemic,” Brown said. “These days, the unknown is perhaps our greatest certainty. We are also newly building and that includes a great amount of uncertainty also.”
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