Events for May 4, 2015 - October 4, 2014
“The New Day: Notes on (Mis)Education and the Dark Proletariat” by James Ford III
Bunche Center Library 135 Haines HallProfessor Ford will reflect on the current crisis of education by revisiting 1930s Black radical thinkers, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Katherine Dunham and Langston Hughes. Drawing on Du Bois's classic […]
Peniel Joseph discusses his new book, “Stokely: A Life”
Bunche 6275Peniel E. Joseph is Professor of History at Tufts University and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy. He is the the author of the […]
David Sheen reports on the struggle of African Immigrants in Israel
Charles S. Young Hall 24“Black Youth Culture, Informal Economy & Drugs in the 1980s” by Donna Murch
Bunche Center Library 135 Haines HallDonna Murch, a Bunche Center Visiting Scholar, is associate professor of history at Rutgers University and co-director of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis and the Black Atlantic. Her teaching […]
Akinyele Umoja discusses his book, “We Will Shoot Back”
Bunche Center Library 135 Haines HallWe Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement (NYU Press, 2013) Akinyele Umoja is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African-American Studies, Georgia State University. A long-time activist […]
Groundings: Black Solidarity with Palestine
Boelter Hall 5249Conversation with writer dream hampton and hip hop artist Jasiri X about their recent trip to Palestine, facilitated by Sohail Dalautzai, Professor at UCI and author of Black Star, Crescent […]
Shana Redmond discusses her book, “Anthem”
Bunche Center Library 135 Haines HallAnthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora (NYU Press, 2013) Shana Redmond is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern […]
“The Art of Being Difficult: The Turn to Abstraction in African-American Poetry & Painting During the 1940s and ’50s” by Jackie Goldsby
Faculty Commons Room 193 Humanities Building“American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs” Free Screening
James Bridges Theater 235 Charles E Young Dr.Screening will be followed by conversation with filmmaker Grace Lee. Tickets are first-come, first-served.
