Past Events
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…
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…