Brochure cover for Stony Brook University鈥檚 Black Studies program, undated
Courtesy of Special Collections and University Archives, Stony Brook University Libraries.
This 1970s trifold mail brochure was sent to prospective Stony Brook students, advertising the university鈥檚 new Black Studies program. An 鈥淎cademic Philosophy鈥 shared inside describes the program as 鈥渄esigned to provide an introductory and systematic understanding of Africa and peoples of African ancestry with the hope of expanding the students鈥 academic and intellectual horizons.鈥 On the cover, the department slogan 鈥減ower through knowledge鈥 nods to both the Latin aphorism scientia potentia est (knowledge is power) and the birth of Black Studies programs as created by a dedicated, student-led faction of the Black Power movement.