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The Black Studies Department (BLS) examines, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the experiences of people of African descent by engaging students in a process of investigating the multiple cultural identities that comprise the category African American.

Courses explore the pioneering, complex, and distinctively African American contribution to the realities of Africans in the diaspora. We engage students in the seven core areas of Black Studies — Black History, Black Sociology, Black Religion, Black Economics, Black Politics, Black Psychology, and the Humanities (Black Literature, Art, and Music) — to advance their critical thinking regarding the central role that race plays in our world.

NKU students can expect small classes and teaching faculty that offer rigorous and diverse curricula in a supportive environment. The department also practices, social activism and implements transdisciplinary pedagogy that connects students with the community both on and off campus preparing them for life after college.

We in the NKU Black Studies Department want you to be a part of this exciting and ever-growing field. Please explore our website, and we encourage you to contact us with further questions.