Past Events
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 Coach…
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…
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…
African Languages & Culture Day
Come experience the beauty and hospitality of African cultures through songs, skits, dance, poems and delicious cuisine.
Learning from Mandela by Professor Rita Barnard
Nelson Mandela is one of the most revered figures of our time. A "life-loving man” by his own description, he committed himself to a compelling political struggle, faced the death penalty…
Scaling Up Stories For Justice | Ange-Marie Hancock
Ange-Marie Hancock
Ange-Marie Hancock will cover what philanthropy, social movement activists, scholar activists, allies and policy makers can do to ensure sustainable social transformation toward incorporating Black humanity into the…
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-first Century
Professor Dorothy Roberts
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Black American Studies and History at the University of Delaware
Please join us for a book talk by Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar, a Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Black American Studies and History at the University of Delaware, University of Pennsylvania Afro-…