Adinkra Symbols of West Africa
On our home page, we used the symbol to the left which means Mate Masie, "What I hear, I keep" or "I understand". Understanding means wisdom and knowledge, but it also represents the prudence of taking into consideration what another person has said.
Learn more about these beautiful symbols by Clicking Here.
The Center also has several educational activities that can be done with students using these symbols. Please contact our Outreach Coordinator at [email protected] for more information.
Patois - New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival
The CAAAS has partnered with the lovely and talented folks of what is now known as Patois since 2007. They are truly a film festival that has risen to the occasion!
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:
We are a festival with a mission. A wide and diverse range of New Orleans community activists founded our festival, and we are dedicated to nurturing our city's human rights community, supporting the work of local organizers and organizations involved in these struggles, and linking local issues to international issues. Our goal is to raise awareness of these issues and provide a forum for artistic expression of these themes.
Center for Black Studies - The University of Southern Mississippi
The University of Southern Mississippi Center for Black Studies was founded by faculty in the college of Arts and Letters in the June 2007.
While it is spearheaded by professors in the Department of History and indeed is housed in the History Department, its reach is wide- ranging and thus far encompasses faculty and administrators from a number of departments and other colleges, including the College of Business, its preliminary direction and program have been guided by Dr. Phyllis Jestice, chair of the Dept. of history, the new Center’s co-founder and director, Dr. Curtis Austin, Associate Professor of history and director of the Center for Oral History, and Dr. Amy Miller, Associate Professor of Sociology and current Associate director of the Center for Black Studies.
The Center’s primary purpose is to encourage the study of the issues relating to the Black experience.