Past Events
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy
Reading and discussion of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy by Carol Anderson. She will be joined in conversation by Professor Camille Z. Charles. Event hosted by Errin…
Race and Sports
A Conversation on "The Miseducation of the Student Athlete: How to Fix College Sports"
featuring:
Kenneth Shropshire
Adidas Distinguished Professor of Global Sport, Arizona…
Penn Alumni Reading Club: Obsidian Blues
Herman Beavers
Join Penn Professor Herman Beavers for an interactive discussion of his newly-released poetry chapbook, Obsidian Blues. You can download this work for free at…
African Languages & Culture Day
Hosted by Department of Africana Studies & Center for Africana
Brave Testimony: A Celebration of Poetry of Africa and the African Diaspora
A celebration of poetry of Africa and the African diaspora featuring Alysia Harris, Award-winning poet and Husnaa Hashim, Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate.
Doors open at 5:30 pm. The program starts at 6:…
Death, Writing, Race, and Freedom
Edwidge Danticat
KEYNOTE ADDRESS "IMAGINING THE RACED SPACE OF FREEDOM: SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF THADIOUS M. DAVIS"
Presented by the Departments of Africana Studies and English / Cosponsored by the Wolf Humanities Center and the…
Penn Alumni Reading Club
Tukufu Zuberi
Join Penn Professor Tukufu Zuberi for an interactive discussion of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy.
This program, free and open to all Penn alumni, is co-hosted by Penn…
Futures of Black Radicalism
Editors Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin discuss Futures of Black Radicalism .
African Scholar-For-A-Day Colloquium
Jemima Pierre
Jemima…