Elizabeth Hinton is Assistant Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies and the Department of History at Harvard University. Hinton’s research focuses on the persistence of poverty […]
First 20 poets to sign up (Sign up: 5-6pm) Top 10 to be invited to return to compete for $500 in cash prizes at the main event * Book donations […]
All abstracts must be submitted online no later than January 15, 2016. On the heels of the establishment of the first generation of Black Studies departments and programs across the United […]
A multimedia performance of Langston Hughes' "Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz" comes to the UCLA Faculty Center on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 5-8 p.m. A reading of the poem will […]
In a revelatory testament of what it means to be black in America today, this timely new memoir solidifies Coates as one of today’s most important writers on the subject […]
We are very excited to invite you to our upcoming Eighth Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium, Race and Resistance: Against Police Violence, on October 16th and 17th at UCLA School of […]
The talk is titled "War Against All Puerto Ricans." Nelson Denis, the author of the new book War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony, will be discussing his book, […]
UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh, African American Studies Department, Institute of American Cultures, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, Luskin School of Public Affairs, and […]
ADMISSION Free and open to the public. RSVP is required. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The Black Convocation is an annual event which welcomes new and returning students to the UCLA campus and […]
