African-American Studies Are Important At September 28th, I went to a preface, at called “Why African-American Studies Are Important”. This preface was directed by Dr. Cassandra Jones who is an assistant professor of African -American studies. The preface was held at the URC Greatroom and started at 6:00 and ended at 7:00. There were about 90 to 130 people in the room filled with five chairs per table. Dr. Cassandra Jones started with us listing 3 African-American politicians, authors, and scientist. While we were listing the people, it got harder to think about the scientists. Half of the kids didn’t know how to answer the question about scientist either. After asking those questions, she gave us a saying from Steve King that talks about
