Past Events




Penn Alumni Reading Club

Tukufu Zuberi
Mar 13, 2018 at

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

Feb 19, 2018 at

Editors Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin discuss Futures of Black Radicalism .

 



African Scholar-For-A-Day Colloquium

Jemima Pierre
Feb 9, 2018 at

 

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17th Annual MLK Lecture in Social Justice

Jan 31, 2018 at

 

This event is co-hosted by the Annenberg School for Communication and the Black Alumni Society.

 



Feminists Tackling Anti-Black State Violence

Nov 17, 2017 at

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. …



Life After Life

Tamara Perkins
Nov 16, 2017 at

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
Nov 15, 2017 at

Hosted by Department of Africana Studies, Center for Africana Studies, Jewish Studies Program, Penn Black & Jewish Dialogues

 



Lecture with Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine
Nov 8, 2017 at

Hosted by Institute for Contemporary Art



Penn Alumni Reading Club

Marc Lamont Hill
Nov 4, 2017 at

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…



The Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham Memorial Lecture featuring Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates
Nov 1, 2017 at