Events

Designing the Narrative with Taylor Shaw and Jon Key ♥

Zoom

Designing the Narrative with Taylor Shaw and Jon Key Description This event brings together two path-forging creatives for a conversation about race and representation in the current moment. Taylor Shaw is a writer, producer, and founder of Black Women Animate, a studio dedicated to cultivating talented women of color and other underrepresented people in the…

Intersecting Realities: Health, Race, and the Ongoing Legacies of Slavery and Jim Crow ♥ ✚

Zoom

Intersecting Realities: Health, Race, and the Ongoing Legacies of Slavery and Jim Crow Description Moderator: Gwendolyn R. Majette (Cleveland-Marshall College of Law) Speakers: • Sabrina Strings (Sociology) • Candice Taylor Lucas (Health Sciences) • Michele Goodwin (Law) Discussion Facilitators: • Sri Basu (English) • Sherine Handy (Anthropplogy) This event is 60 minutes. All are welcome…

Intersecting Realities: Health, Race, and the Ongoing Legacies of Slavery and Jim Crow ♥ ✚

Zoom

How does race shape health? Please join us to find out! Intersecting Realities: Health, Race, and the Ongoing Legacies of Slavery and Jim Crow Oct. 15, 2020 5:00-6:30 p.m. (60 minute event + 30 minute discussion) Moderator Gwendolyn R. Majette, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Speakers: Sabrina Strings, Sociology Candice Taylor Lucas, Health Sciences Michele Goodwin,…

The Black Liberation Movement & Radical Community Education ♥

Zoom

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) •…

Designing the Narrative: Taylor Shaw and Jon Key ♥ ★

Zoom

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…

Financial Legacies: Slavery and the History of Banking ♥

Zoom

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…

Financial Legacies: Slavery and the History of Banking ♥ ✚

Zoom

A redlining map of Los Angeles in 1939. Financial Legacies: Slavery and the History of Banking October 22, 2020 5:00p.m. - 6:30p.m. Zoom Bill Maurer (UCI Social Sciences), Peter Hudson (UCLA), Mehrsa Baradaran (UCI Law) Register: http://socs.ci/1619financiallegacies Moderator: Keaanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Princeton) Speakers: Bill Maurer (Social Sciences) Peter Hudson (UCLA) Mehrsa Baradaran (UCI Law) This event…

African American Music: The Sound of Freedom’s Journey ♥ ✚

Zoom

African American Music: The Sound of Freedom’s Journey Description Using the 1619 Project’s “Episode 3: The Birth of American Music” as a launching point, this panel explores innovation in musical expressions from spirituals to jazz and contemporary music, investigating freedom as a process in motion, not as a destination. Speakers: • Dawn Norfleet (Music) and…

The 1619 Project: A Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones ♥

Zoom

The 1619 Project: A Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones Description Tune in to hear acclaimed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones talk about “The 1619 Project,” the groundbreaking study of the role played by slavery in American history and life. Niokle Hannah-Jones will be interviewed by UCI Law Professor Mehrsa Baradaran, a co-author of “The 1619 Project.” Nikole Hannah-Jones…

1520 and the Slave Trade to the Americas ♥

Topic 1520 and the Slave Trade to the Americas  Description Perhaps one of the most surprising aspects of the 1619 commemorations is that few people realize that the earliest known slaving voyages to sail directly from Africa to the Americas actually landed in the United States 500 years ago. The ship Santa María de la…