On April 8, 2023, the Organization of Africology and African American Graduate Students (OAAAGS) held its 2nd Annual Conference at the Center for Anti-Racism on "African Consciousness: An Exposition of Emerging Scholarship in Africana Studies and Africology."  A well-attended and impeccably organized event, the conference featured, in addition to Temple's own Department of Africology and African American Studies students, graduate students from UPenn, Capella University, UMass Boston, and the University of South Carolina.