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Adelphi University https://www.adelphi.edu/news/celebrating-50-years-of-african-black-and-caribbean-studies-at-adelphi-university/
Amherst College https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/black_studies/about
Antioch College https://www.facebook.com/the365projectys/videos/3244791955606151/
Barnard College https://barnard.edu/magazine/spring-2012/africana-studies
Bowdoin College https://bowdoinorient.com/2019/03/01/bowdoin-in-history-half-a-century-of-africana-studies/
Bowling Green State University https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/cultural-and-critical-studies/ethnic-studies/history.html
Brandeis University https://www.brandeis.edu/aaas/events/50th/index.html
Brooklyn College http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/news/bcnews/bcnews_140211.php
Brown University https://africana.brown.edu/our-history
California State University at Los Angeles https://www.calstatela.edu/academic/pas/pan-african-studies-history-pas-cal-state-la
California State University at Northridge https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/university-news/africana-studies-celebrates-powerful-history-and-looks-to-the-future-at-50th-anniversary-event/
Chicago State University https://www.csu.edu/gshaa/afams/historydept.htm
Claremont Colleges https://claremontactivism.omeka.net/exhibits/show/seeds-of-change
Cleveland State University https://class.csuohio.edu/black-studies/BLS50years
Columbia University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0MtxMSz3ac http://iraas.columbia.edu/about/history
Cornell University https://africana.cornell.edu/node/1421
Dartmouth College https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2020/10/dartmouth-honors-half-century-black-studies
Duke University https://aaas.duke.edu/abt50/event
Emory University http://aas.emory.edu/home/about/history.html
Fordham University https://news.fordham.edu/university-news/fordhams-department-of-african-and-african-american-studies-celebrates-50-years/
Georgia State University https://aas.gsu.edu/about-us/history-of-aas/
Grinnell College https://magazine.grinnell.edu/news/legacy-activism
Harvard University https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/50th
Indiana University https://aaads.indiana.edu/about/history/index.html
Indiana University Northwest https://www.iun.edu/news/2019/50-years-black-studies.htm
Knox College https://www.knox.edu/magazine/spring-2018/features/able-at-50
Louisiana State University https://www.lsu.edu/hss/aaas/about/history.php
Loyola University https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/15172
Massachusetts Institute of Technology https://www.blackhistory.mit.edu/
Michigan State University https://aaas.msu.edu/history/
New York University https://nyunews.com/2019/02/28/under-the-arch-black-history-month-nyu/
Northwestern University https://afam.northwestern.edu/about/department-history.html https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/15175
Notre Dame https://africana.nd.edu/about/history-of-black-studies-at-notre-dame/
Oberlin College https://www.oberlin.edu/news/reflections-50-years-africana-studies-and-its-program-house
Ohio State University https://aaas.osu.edu/about
Ohio University https://www.ohio.edu/cas/african-american-studies/about/history
Princeton University https://aas.princeton.edu/news/black-history-princeton
Purdue University https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/sis/p/african-american/history.html
Reed College https://blogs.reed.edu/an-identity-crisis/the-struggle-for-black-studies/ https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiD2aPtnoPxAhVQZ80KHcqoD7MQFjAPegQIFRAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ohs.org%2Fresearch-and-library%2Foregon-historical-quarterly%2Fupload%2FWhite_Black-Studies-at-Reed_OHQ-119_1_Spring-2018_spread.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2Oy6BovWAZ1UQbAzSFJTz_
Rice University https://alumni.rice.edu/black-history-rice
Rutgers University https://africanastudies.rutgers.edu/about-us/36-about
San Francisco State University https://africana.sfsu.edu/content/history
San Jose State University https://blogs.sjsu.edu/newsroom/tag/african-american-studies/
Seton Hall University https://blogs.shu.edu/archives/2020/02/african-american-studies-50th-anniversary-of-distinction/
Sonoma State University https://amcs.sonoma.edu/50th-anniversary
South Suburban Community College https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/15171
Stanford University https://aaas.stanford.edu/our-history-timeline
State University of New York at New Paltz https://www.newpaltz.edu/blackstudiesproudtradition/history-of-department/
State University of New York at Oneonta https://suny.oneonta.edu/africana-latinx-studies/department-history
Stony Brook University https://news.stonybrook.edu/community-outreach/africana-studies-celebrates-50th-anniversary/
Swarthmore College https://blacklib1969.swarthmore.edu/
Syracuse University https://thecollege.syr.edu/african-american-studies/history/
Temple University http://www.asante.net/articles/7/the-creation-of-the-doctorate-in-african-american-studies-at-temple-university-knocking-at-the-door-of-eurocentric-hegemony/
Tuskegee University https://www.tuskegee.edu/news/neh-grant-funds-first-ever-african-american-studies-minor-at-tuskegee
University of Alabama http://bfsa.ua.edu/history.html
University of Albany https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjd8obqsYbxAhXPAp0JHWfdCZA4ChAWMAR6BAgUEAM&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.albany.edu%2Fpr%2Fualbany_magazine_spring_2010%2FQuality%26Equality_Spring_10.pdf&usg=AOvVaw36d-7B-tQiQzBSIVC-_V3N
University of California at Berkeley https://africam.berkeley.edu/history/
University of California at Davis https://aas.ucdavis.edu/history-aas
University of California at Los Angeles https://bunchecenter.ucla.edu/history-and-mission/
University of California at San Diego https://bsp.ucsd.edu/about/history.html
University of California at Santa Barbara https://www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu/about
University of Colorado https://www.colorado.edu/ethnicstudies/department-history
University of Florida https://news.clas.ufl.edu/african-american-studies-celebrates-50th-anniversary/
University of Georgia https://afam.uga.edu/our-history
University of Illinois at Springfield https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/15173
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign https://afro.illinois.edu/resources/history-department-african-american-studies
University of Iowa https://africanamericanstudies.uiowa.edu/history
University of Kansas http://news.ku.edu/2021/04/15/department-african-african-american-studies-celebrating-50th-anniversary
University of Kentucky https://uknowledge.uky.edu/black_studies_50/
University of Massachusetts at Amherst https://www.umass.edu/afroam/event/50th-anniversary-virtual-symposium
University of Michigan https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/daas/
University of Minnesota https://cla.umn.edu/aaas/about/history https://fmfp.org/2019/04/afro-50-black-studies-and-protest-at-the-university-of-minnesota/
University of Mississippi https://aas.olemiss.edu/documenting-the-african-american-experience-at-um/history-of-the-african-american-studies-department/
University of Nebraska at Omaha https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-arts-and-sciences/black-studies/blst-50th-anniversary.php
University of New Mexico https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiRlfWL-P7wAhWIW80KHT_SC_4QFjAAegQIAhAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdigitalrepository.unm.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1010%26context%3Dprovost_acad_program_review&usg=AOvVaw1HJbUkaFKycL3YCvm_I3eZ
University of Pittsburgh https://thefourthwavepitt.com/2020/11/18/a-short-history-of-the-africana-studies-department/
University of Tennessee https://artsci.utk.edu/dialogue/50-years-of-africana-studies-at-ut/
University of Texas at Austin https://blackstudiesut.org/warfield50years/
University of Wisconsin at Madison https://afroamericanstudies.wisc.edu/history/
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee https://uwm.edu/african-diaspora-studies/50th-anniversary/
Vassar College https://150.vassar.edu/histories/africana-studies/index.html
Virginian Commonwealth University https://afam.vcu.edu/about/history/1960s/
Wabash College https://www.wabash.edu/mxibs/history
Washington University https://afas.wustl.edu/
Wayne State University https://abj.matrix.msu.edu/videofull.php?id=29-DF-DF https://today.wayne.edu/news/2016/02/23/wayne-state-universitys-department-of-african-american-studies-celebrates-anniversary-with-event-honoring-the-legacy-of-black-studies-at-wsu-5804
Wellesley College https://www.wellesley.edu/africana/historymission
Wesleyan University https://www.wesleyan.edu/afam/50th/
Williams College https://communications.williams.edu/news-releases/4_4_2019_afr50/ https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjioomDj4TxAhXBLc0KHY-lDbQQFjAHegQIChAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdavis-center.williams.edu%2Ffiles%2F2015%2F10%2FBlack-Williams-A-Written-History-complete-edited-document.pdf&usg=AOvVaw3SNoiCiDxh8KpM10dHHg7U
Yale University https://macmillan.yale.edu/news/commemorating-50th-anniversary-african-american-studies-yale-university
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