Past Events
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…
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…
Penn Museum’s 28th Annual Celebration of African Cultures
Traditional African music and contemporary African dance, storytelling, a drumming workshop, arts, crafts, an African marketplace, games, family gallery tours, film, and more—it all comes alive at…
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Africa's Great Civilizations
In his new documentary, Africa’s Great Civilizations, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and cultural critic Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the epic stories of both celebrated and…
The Hexagon and the Triangle: Navigating Blackness/Africanness in both Color-Blind and Hyper-Racialized Sites of the Atlantic
Maboula Soumahoro, Université François Rabelais de Tours (France), Bennington College, Columbia University
A study composed of both personal and academic reflections devoted to the processes of racialization and expressions of blackness, in their relation to citizenship in contemporary, metropolitan France…
Monday Poets Series featuring Dr. Herman Beavers
Dr. Herman Beavers and Janice A. Lowe
Herman Beaver’s latest poetry project turns to Toni Morrison’s Beloved as a source for a cycle of poems on Sethe’s two sons, Howard and Buglar that will situate them in circumstances ranging…