Black History Month 2016

Observed annually in February, Black History Month is a celebration of black accomplishment and its many heroes, who are often forgotten about, or rarely mentioned. According to Black History Month founder Carter G. Woodson, “If a race has no history, it has no worthwhile tradition.”

This year, the American University of Paris launched a two-week series of events, sponsored by departments ranging from the Center for Critical Democracy Studies to the Creative Writing Program, in honor of Black History Month. These included a screening of Laurence Petit-Jouvet’s documentary, La Ligne de Couleur, which explores what it means to be “non-white” in France, a talk by writer and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates about his latest book, Between the World and Me, and a discussion led by writer, critic, and editor, Thomas Chatterton Williams.

Read more about the evening with Ta-Nehisi Coates.