Past Events
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 6:00…
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
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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. …