The Black Liberation Movement and Radical Community Education Description Moderator: Krystal Tribbett (UCI Libraries) Speakers: • Ericka Huggins (Former Leader of the Black Panthers, Human Rights Activist and Poet) • Angela LeBlanc-Ernest (Independent Scholar and Documentary Filmmaker of the Oakland Community School and the Intersectional Black Panther Party Research Project) • Damien Sojoyner (Anthropology) • [...]

Marvel’s Black Panther, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X, Steven Spielberg’s Amistad, and Ava Duvernay’s Selma—what do these successful films have in common? A talented and devoted costume designer! Ruth E. Carter has created the most memorable and powerful images on the silver screen through her ingenious costume designs. Her wealth of knowledge in African American history and African [...]

Nigel Poor is a visual artist whose work explores the various ways people make a mark and leave behind evidence of their existence. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and can be found in various museum collections including the SFMOMA, the M.H. deYoung Museum, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. She [...]

The UCI Department of Political Science and Jack W. Peltason Center for the Study of Democracy present Issues in the 2020 Election: Social Movements, Political Misinformation, and the Court featuring Louis DeSipio, Professor, Political Science and Chicano/Latino Studies, UCI Mary McThomas, Associate Professor, Political Science, UCI David Meyer, Professor, Sociology, UCI Cailin O'Connor, Associate Professor, [...]

Join us for a conversation about voice and Black creativity The #UCI1619Project continues through a conversation with Taylor Shaw (writer, producer, and founder of Black Women Animate) and Jon Key (illustrator, designer, and fine artist whose work appears in The 1619 Project).  Black Women Animate is dedicated to cultivating talented women of color and other [...]

Publisher's introduction: A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of [...]

The Active* Consent Programme is an important project in the era of MeToo and TimesUp. It aims to raise awareness of sexual consent and to cultivate positive and confident sexual health and wellbeing for young people. With live theatre, videos, animation, workshops, and social media based on real-time statistical research with young people 16-24 on [...]

Central Americans and AfroLatinidades October 22, 2020 3:00p.m. - 4:30p.m. Zoom Victoria Gonzalez-Rivera, Ph.D., Latin American History, Indiana University RSVP: http://bit.ly/Afro-Latinidades   Professor Gonzalez-Rivera recently published an essay titled “Why My Nicaraguan Father Did Not ‘See’ His Blackness And How Latinx Anti-Black Racism Feeds On Racial Silence.”  In this presentation she weaves together her personal experiences and [...]

Financial Legacies: Slavery and the History of Banking Description Moderator: • Keaanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Princeton) Speakers: • Bill Maurer (Social Sciences) • Peter Hudson (UCLA) • Mehrsa Baradaran (UCI Law) Discussion Facilitators: • Tonya Bradford (Business) • Mrinalini Tankha (Portland State University)This event is 60 minutes. All are welcome to stay for a bonus 30 minute [...]