Events
Black Lives Matter
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…
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…
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) •…
Financial Legacies: Slavery and the History of Banking ♥
ZoomFinancial 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…
African American Music: The Sound of Freedom’s Journey ♥ ✚
ZoomAfrican 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 Q&A facilitated by Professor Erika Hayasaki, Literary Journalism ♥
ZoomThe 1619 Project: A Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones Q&A facilitated by Professor Erika Hayasaki, Literary Journalism Description Informal Q and A with students Time Oct 29, 2020 02:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)
The 1619 Project: A Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones ♥
ZoomThe 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…
Anti-Black Racism, UCI Health Equity Life Partners (UCI-HELPs) seminar ♥ ✚
ZoomAnti-Black Racism, UCI Health Equity Life Partners (UCI-HELPs) seminar on the evening of Thursday, November 5, from 6-7 pm. Terrance Mayes, EdD, will present on Anti-Black Racism: An American Crisis 400 years in the Making. Candice Taylor-Lucas, MD, UCI Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Co-Director of LEAD-ABC will facilitate the presentation. A resident-student…
#BlackLivesMatter Series ♥ ★ ✚
Zoom#BlackLivesMatter Series The series developed by the Cross-Cultural Center began on January 28 and includes February virtual meetings at 1 p.m. Pacific about "Addressing Anti-Blackness at UCI" (February 4, "Black-Coded Cartoon Characters" (February 11), and "The Power of Belonging" (February 18). Free and open to all UCI community members and individuals attending 3 or more…