Past Events
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…
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…
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…