Akinyele Umoja discusses his book, “We Will Shoot Back”

Bunche Center Library 135 Haines Hall

We 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 5249

Conversation 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 Hall

Anthem: 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 […]

Jonathan Scott Holloway discusses his book, “Jim Crow Wisdom”

Bunche Center Library 135 Haines Hall

Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black American Since 1940 (UNC Press, 2013) Jonathan Holloway, Yale University Professor of History, American Studies and African American Studies is also the […]