Past Events
17th Annual MLK Lecture in Social Justice
This event is co-hosted by the Annenberg School for Communication and the Black Alumni Society.
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Feminists Tackling Anti-Black State Violence
The past several years have seen an increase in public awareness of political and other forms of state violence, especially those directed at African-Americans and other people of African descent worldwide. While…
Life After Life
Tamara Perkins
Hosted by Beyond Arrests: Re-thinking Systematic Oppression / Co-sponsored by Department of Africana Studies, Center for Africana Studies
Rosenwald
Avivia Kempne & John Jordan, Philadelphia NAACP
Hosted by Department of Africana Studies, Center for Africana Studies, Jewish Studies Program, Penn Black & Jewish Dialogues
Lecture with Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine
Hosted by Institute for Contemporary Art
Penn Alumni Reading Club
Marc Lamont Hill
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
Marc Lamont Hill, GR'05
Join Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, GR’05, host of BET News, political contributor…
Dreadlocks Story
Director Linda Aïnouche
About the Film
DREADLOCKS STORY is a historical page which exhibits the bonds of survival of African and Indian culture in Jamaica in view of up-front anti-slavery and anti-imperialist…
The Real Record on Racial Attitudes
Dr. Camille Z. Charles
Dr. Camille Z. Charles
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences; Professor of Sociology, Africana Studies, and Education; Director, Center for Africana Studies
Up Against a Wall: Muslim Women’s Struggle to Reclaim Masjid Space in Trinidad and Tobago
Rhoda Reddock
Rhoda Reddock is professor of Gender, Social Change and Development and former deputy campus principal of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus. For many years she served as head of the Centre for…