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UCI Black Thriving: Making a New Black History
UCI Black Thriving: Making a New Black History A message from Vice Chancellor Douglas M. Haynes, Dear campus community, I welcome you all to join me in commemorating February as…
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Daunte Wright – A Death in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota ♥ ★ ✚
Dear campus community, Daunte Wright joins a lengthening and disheartening list of unarmed Black people who have been killed in police custody. The time and place may be different, but…
AICRE + PHILOSOPHY ♥ ★
AICRE + PHILOSOPHY Rather than remain silent on race, Western philosophy has often situated African and Black life particularly as degraded, an exception, or outside life itself. What genealogies have…
Politics of Language Speaker Series, featuring Dr. Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison ♥ ★ ✚
Join the Center for Excellence in Writing & Communication for the Spring quarter presentation of our Politics of Language Speaker Series, featuring Dr. Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison! Dr. Morrison’s talk will…
Shakespeare and Black Life: Actor Jeremie Harris in Conversation with Jehbreal Jackson ’20 ♥ ★
Kirk Davis Jr. Public Shakespeare Lecture In this public conversation, Jeremie Harris will discuss his role as Claudio in New York Public Theatre’s 2019 production of Much Ado About Nothing, which…
The Suppliants Project ♥ ★
Dramatic readings of scenes from Aeschylus’ The Suppliants as a catalyst for powerful discussions about immigration and the refugee crisis. About this Event The Suppliants Project presents dramatic readings by…
Anti-Blackness: Difficult Dialogues Series | “We Charge Genocide!” The Mental and Physical Tolls of Racial Battle Fatigue among Black People ♥ ✚
Join the UC Irvine School of Social Sciences Office of Faculty Development and Diversity for Anti-Blackness: Difficult Dialogues Series “We Charge Genocide!” The Mental and Physical Tolls of Racial Battle…
UCI Solidarity Statements
To Be Black and Safe – Reflections on the Buffalo Mass Shooting ♥
Dear campus community, May 14 began like any other Saturday afternoon for customers at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York. The day ended quite differently, however. Gun shots shattered…
UCI Black Thriving: Making a New Black History
UCI Black Thriving: Making a New Black History A message from Vice Chancellor Douglas M. Haynes, Dear campus community, I welcome you all to join me in commemorating February as…
In Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2022 ♥★
A message from Douglas M. Haynes, Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Willie L. Banks Jr., Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Dear campus community, Our individual…
Juneteenth 2021 ♥ ★
Dear campus community, Yesterday President Joseph Biden signed into law the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. By creating this federal holiday,…
A Message from Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, Hal Stern | UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Cluster Hiring Program Outcome ★
Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce the outcome of the inaugural call for proposals for the UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Cluster Hiring Program. As announced last fall, the…
After the Fierce Urgency of Now Passes – Message on George Floyd Commemoration
Dear campus community, Today marks the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. George Floyd’s death simultaneously elevated attention to systemic anti-Black racism in the United States and spurred…
A Message from the Law School | Community Statement on Chauvin Verdict ♥
Community Statement on Chauvin Verdict 04-20-2021 Dear Law School Community, Over the last few weeks, we have endured the trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, even as we have…