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Designing the Narrative with Taylor Shaw and Jon Key ♥
ZoomDesigning 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…
Join UC Santa Barbara’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the launch of the 2020-2021 series Anti-Blackness: Difficult Dialogues ♥
Join UC Santa Barbara's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the launch of the 2020-2021 series Anti-Blackness: Difficult Dialogues: Anti-Blackness, Refusal, and Resistance: Fugitive Possibilities in Black Education by kihana miraya ross Wednesday, October 14 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM About the Speaker: kihana miraya ross received her doctorate from UC Berkeley in 2016 and…
Intersecting Realities: Health, Race, and the Ongoing Legacies of Slavery and Jim Crow ♥ ✚
ZoomIntersecting 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 ♥ ✚
ZoomHow 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,…
Talking Black in America ♥
ZoomThey say a picture is worth a thousand words - I feel like I grew up in an environment where a person could use a few words and it felt like a thousand pictures. UC IRVINE LANGUAGE SCIENCE TALKS ON LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY Talking Black in America a documentary by the Language & Life Project About…
The Black Liberation Movement & Radical Community Education ♥
ZoomThe 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) •…
Ruth E. Carter: Black Panther and Costume Design ★
ZoomMarvel’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…
Designing the Narrative: Taylor Shaw and Jon Key ♥ ★
ZoomJoin 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…
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin ♥
ZoomPublisher'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…
