about
abcc.
WHO WE ARE
The National Association for Black Culture Centers offers you and your institution professional development opportunities to learn best practices on strengthening AfrAs ABCC Executive Director/Founder, Dr. Fred L. Hord, writes in Black Culture Centers: Politics of Survival and Identity, "Black Culture and Multiculture Centers rose out of the student protest and other activist movements of people of color in the United States for social justice and cultural recognition on the college campus." The ABCC is committed to supporting centers as places to celebrate, promote and critically examine the ways of life of ethnic groups. We collaborate with centers across the country to develop programming and ideas to educate all people on the history and culture of African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans and Native Americans.
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We also encourage you to find the connections you and your Center have with African descended people.ican American, Latino, Asian American, Native American and multicultural centers. Our best practices focus on developing synergy among centers, while teaching the historical and contemporary connections Latinos, Asian Americans and Native Americans have with Africana people. Whether you’re a faculty/staff member or student, we invite you to join our organization. You’ll connect with others at our regional conferences who share your passion for building connections among ethnic groups and increasing understanding of their related history and culture.
MISSION & VISION.
The Association for Black Culture Centers is an organization that seeks to celebrate, promote and critically examine the cultures (ways of life) of the following ethnic groups: African American, Latino, Asian American and Native American. We aim to institutionalize those Centers, including Multiculture Centers, to enhance individual, community and global development. The ABCC expects that increased understanding of history and culture of each ethnic group will lead to authentic integration on campus and in the community. Latinos, Asian Americans and Native Americans have an historical and contemporary connection with Africana people, and we begin these relationships by focusing on the connections.
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​With our network of experienced center directors and lists of books and articles, we look forward to guiding you as you work to build connections among ethnic groups. Our Afro-Latino Initiative features 200 books on Blacks in Latin America, including Brazil, Cuba and Mexico, as well as Blacks and Latinos in the U.S. We believe these books are vital to inspiring your center's courses, programming and professional development as well as assisting your Center in forming vital ties with academic programs. We're currently developing an Afro-Asian Initiative, which features books to help you understand and teach the connections between Asians and Africana people.
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cultivate. curate. collaborate.
NEARLY 40 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE
In early 1988, ABCC founder and Executive Director, Dr. Fred Lee Hord, as the first director of the Center for Black Culture and Research at West Virginia University, introduced the idea of a new organization to promote networking among centers and their institutions at an American Council on Education conference in Washington, D.C. Moving to Knox College, he gained administrative acceptance to host an inaugural national conference. That 1989 conference (at Knox College) was followed by biennial and then annual events.
BOARD
Dedication. Expertise. Passion.
