The Avery Research Center for African American History & Culture collects, preserves & promotes the unique history of the African diaspora #ChsNews
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20 Feb 2025
Scholarship applications for the Spring Certified Interpretive Guide training close next Friday. Submit today!
4 Feb 2025
Attention Interpreters and Tour Guides!
Registration for the Spring Certified Interpretive Guide course at the Avery Research Center is live!
Scholarships are available #ChsNews nai-us.org/nai/_prof_develop…
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10 Feb 2025
Join us virtually or in-person on Thursday, February 13th from 6:00-7:00 pm (EST) for a HYBRID discussion of Dr. Millicent Brown’s latest book “Another Sojourner Looking for Truth!”
Click the link “Avery Event Registration” link in our bio to save your spot!
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4 Feb 2025
Attention Interpreters and Tour Guides!
Registration for the Spring Certified Interpretive Guide course at the Avery Research Center is live!
Scholarships are available #ChsNews nai-us.org/nai/_prof_develop…
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3 Feb 2025
Join the Black and Brown Interpreters Network™️ for an Eastside Matters Tour with Latonya Gamble. Register below #ChsNews libcal.charleston.edu/calend…
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31 Jan 2025
The College will recognize Black History Month with programming and events throughout the month of February, commencing with the State of Black CofC Summit on Saturday, Feb. 1. With everything from lectures and film screenings to workshops and athletic events, the month is jam-packed with events for everyone: cofc-alumni.info/BHM2025
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ALT The College will recognize Black History Month with programming and events throughout the month of February, commencing with the State of Black CofC Summit on Saturday, Feb. 1. With everything from lectures and film screenings to workshops and athletic events, the month is jam-packed with events for everyone: https://cofc-alumni.info/BHM2025
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1 Feb 2025
On this day, we honor poet, writer and activist Langston Hughes, born on February 1, 1901. Hughes is widely regarded as a trailblazer of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, known for his poetry and literary works that captured the essence of African American life
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27 Jan 2025
Join us at the Avery Research Center (@avery_tweets) on February 11th at 6pm for a screening & discussion of “Lowndes County & the Road to Black Power” w/ veteran SNCC organizer Mukasa “Willie Ricks” Dada!
Register here: libcal.charleston.edu/calend…
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19 Jan 2025
Avery Research Center Director to Marshal MLK Parade holycitysinner.com/news/aver… #chsnews
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6 Jan 2025
Join the Black and Brown Interpreters Network™️ for a Frankly Charleston Black History Tour with certified interpretive Guide Franklin Williams!
Spaces are limited. Register below #ChsNews libcal.charleston.edu/calend…
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17 Dec 2024
Attention Black and Brown Interpreters and Tour Guides!
We are now accepting applications for the Michael A. Allen Heritage Interpretation Scholarship for the Spring 2025 Charleston Master Naturalist Course! Apply today! #ChsNews
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11 Dec 2024
The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture is hiring an Outreach & Public Program Coordinator
Apply below #ChsNews
jobs.cofc.edu/postings/16212
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6 Nov 2024
On Tuesday, November 12, join @theGibbesmuseum at the Avery Research Center for a panel discussion that explores the importance of ancestral research as it relates to health and wellness.
For more information (and to register), visit gibbesmuseum.org #ChsNews
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4 Nov 2024
Avery Research Center staff is presenting and attending sessions at the South Carolina Archival Association conference and annual meeting today at Addlestone Library. There’s never a dull moment with this team!
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4 Nov 2024
The Avery Research Center is closed for staff professional development.
We will return to normal operating hours on Wednesday, November 6th at 10am #ChsNews
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4 Nov 2024
Attention Black and Brown Interpreters and tour guides!
Join us the Black and Brown Interpreters Network™️ at the International African American Museum (@iaamuseum) for a special tour with Associate Curator Isabelle Britto
Register below #ChsNews
libcal.charleston.edu/calend…
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11 Oct 2024
Congratulations to Aaisha Haykal, who recently received the President's Service Award from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History! Very well-deserved! 👏👏👏 @avery_tweets
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11 Oct 2024
The Black and Brown Interpreters Network had a great Fall Planning Meeting today! Big things are on the horizon for this group!
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2 Oct 2024
Attention interpreters & tour guides!
Join the Black & Brown Interpreters Network at the Aiken Rhett House for an Urban Townhouse Tour with tour guide Kevin Simmons to discuss the history of the site & the enslaved people who lived & worked there #ChsNews
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1 Oct 2024
We just wrapped another Certified Interpretive Guide training & added 7 new Black & Brown interpreters to the ranks of the National Association for Interpretation!
We’re committed to making heritage interpretation accessible because only we can tell our stories! #ChsNews
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