Events
Care as Resistance: Black Mental Health and Collective Healing
Date: Thursday, Mar 19, 2026
Black Owned: HBCUs, the Black Church, & The Divine Nine
Date: Thursday, Mar 26, 2026
Community Lecture Series, Film Screening: "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat"
Date: Thursday, Apr 2, 2026
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VCU Well Project Updates: Memorializations and Internment
Date: Thursday, Apr 9, 2026
Annual Events
Our department hosts several regular events throughout the year, including our Gabriel Summer Institute. Please view below for links on our annual events as they are developed!
Gabriel Summer Scholars Institute
VCU’s Department of African American Studies hosts a weeklong day camp for high school students. The theme student will explore in the 2026 session is "Waterways to Lifeways: Genealogy, Geography, Environment". Please see the page on the Institute for further details.
Community Lecture Series
The Department of African American Studies hosts weekly lectures in the Richmond Public Library's Auditorium room, held every Thursday at 6pm. Please view the Community Lecture Calendar for more information! An ADA accessible list of events is available within the AFAM Events Calendar, where all of the department's events are listed.
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