Past Events
Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility
Ashon T. Crawley
In author Ashon Crawley's own words:
Female Empowerment for Global Social Change: A Panel Discussion
Kiera Kenney graduated from the School of Social Policy and Practice with her MSW in 2013. She is Manager of Health and Social Services at the African Family Health Organization in Philadelphia, where she works with…
Identity & the 2016 U.S. Election
This program will gather a panel of scholars who will engage the Penn community in conversation around: a) the role of identity in shaping the 2016 US presidential election and b) how we might expect issues of…
Ghosts, Zombies, and the Afterlives of Slavery
Colson Whitehead with Salamishah Tillet
Colson Whitehead
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad
Salamishah Tillet
Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies, University of…
History Doesn't Have To Repeat Itself
Film screening of the documentary "History Doesn't Have to Repeat Itself" and a Q&A with the award-winning filmmaker, Stéphane Gérard and Africana Studies PhD student, Sydney Baloue.
The screening is free…
Cinema's Peculiar Institution: Screening Slavery in 1939
Ellen Scott
When we think of depictions of slavery on screen in 1939, one film most likely to come to mind: David O. Selznick’s epic adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. The film famously raised questions for…
Penn Alumni Reading Club
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Join Penn alumna and Professor at the University of Delaware Erica Armstrong Dunbar for an interactive discussion of her new book, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge.…
Race and Sports
Join the Center for Africana Studies and the Wharton Sports Business Initiative for a conversation on race, sports and activism featuring:
Preston Brown, Woodrow Wilson High School Football…
Locking Up Our Own
Moderator:
Camille Z. Charles
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg
Professor in the Social Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
Commentators:
Regina Austin
William A.…
Brave Testimony: Celebrating Poetry of the African Diaspora featuring Herman Beavers
Herman Beavers is Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent poems haveappeared in Cleaver Magazine, The American Arts Quarterly and been…