Past Events
MLK Jr. Lecture in Social Justice
Featuring Nikole Hannah-Jones
NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. The book version of The 1619 Project was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller.…
Tara Bynum Book Launch
Tara A. Bynum is an assistant professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Iowa and a Barra Sabbatical Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.
Book…
Digital Humanities & Black Digital Heritage
Featuring Dorothy Berry
Dorothy Berry is a Digital Curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and she is a leading voice in Black Digital Humanities and Black Cultural Heritage. Her talk will address…
2022 A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. Memorial Lecture
Feat. Dean Linda Sheryl Greene
Linda Sheryl Greene is Dean and MSU Foundation Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law and an elected life member of The American Law Institute.
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Penn Alumni Reading Club with Akira Drake Rodriguez
Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing
Join author and Weitzman School of Design Professor Akira Drake Rodriguez for an interactive online discussion of her new book Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing…
A Reading By Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Co-hosted by the Center for Africana Studies and the Kelly Writers House With additional support from the Creative Writing Program, the Department of English, and the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (GR'12) is the author of the short story collection Blue Talk and Love (2015), winner of the Judith Markowitz Award for Fiction from Lambda Literary; The Poetics of Difference:…
Africa Lecture Series ft. Kwame Edwin Otu
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Kwame Edwin Otu is currently an Assistant Professor of African…
Penn Alumni Reading Club ft. Elias Rodriques
Elias Rodriques, Assistant Professor of African American Literature, Department of English, Sarah Lawrence College
Co-hosted with Alumni Education. Co-sponsored by Penn Spectrum Programs, Penn Black Alumni…
Brave Testimony: A Celebration of Poetry of the African Diaspora
ft. Patricia Smith
Patricia Smith is the award-winning author of eight critically-acclaimed books of poetry, including Incendiary Art (Triquarterly Books, 2017), winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the…
African Language and Cultural Day
SWAHILI
A. Elementary: national anthems of Tanzania and Kenya; traditional love song (Malaika…