“My Good Friends Walter Rodney and John Walton”: Racial Brokering in New Orleans Education Reform

"My Good Friends Walter Rodney and John Walton": Racial Brokering in New Orleans Education Reform A Talk with Christien Tompkins Monday, November 13th, 2017 12:00pm-2:00pm UCLA Black Forum Room, Haines Hall 153 Christien Tompkins is a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California Los Angeles in African American Studies. He received his PhD in […]

A Conversation With Bootsy Collins: Worldwide Funk

A Conversation With Bootsy Collins: Worldwide Funk Hosted by Scot Brown Tuesday, January 30, 2018  6:00pm-8:30pm Fowler Museum at UCLA, Room A139 RSVP HERE: worldwidefunk.eventbrite.com Free and Open to the Public

Bankers, Empire, and Black Study

Bankers, Empire, and Black Study Thursday, February 1st, 2018 2:00pm-4:00pm Reception to follow. UCLA Young Research Library (YRL) Main Conference Room 11360   A roundtable discussion on Peter James Hudson's "Banker's and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean". featuring Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report Peter James Hudson, UCLA Walter Johnson, Harvard University Deborah A. […]

Why Black Women’s Lives and Histories Matter

WHY HISTORY MATTERS Why Black Women’s Lives and Histories Matter Thursday, February 8, 2018 7:00 p.m. Fowler Museum at UCLA, Lenart Auditorium Self-pay parking available in Structure 4 Funmilola Fagbamila Adjunct Professor, Department of Pan-African Studies California State University, Los Angeles Dion Fountaine Raymond, J.D. Discrimination Prevention Officer and Coordinator UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion […]

Support for Black Reparations in the Early 21st Century

Support for Black Reparations in the Early 21st Century Talk by Michael Dawson John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College The University of Chicago Monday, February 12th, 2018 12:00pm-2:00pm Black Forum, Haines Hall 153 Lunch will be provided.

A Book Talk with Manisha Sinha on “The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition”

A Book Talk with Manisha Sinha The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition Tuesday, February 13th, 2018 12:00pm-1:30pm Black Forum, Haines Hall 153 Manisha Sinha will discuss her prize-winning book, The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (Yale University Press, 2016) Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies […]

The Intersection: Woke Black Folk

26th Annual Pan African Film Festival Featured Theater Event   Playwright, Poet, Scholar and Activist FUNMILOLA FAGBAMILA performs for  ONE NIGHT ONLY  her one-woman, hip hop, spoken word theater piece: THE INTERSECTION: WOKE BLACK FOLK   March 2nd, 2018 Doors Open: 6:00pm Show Begins: 7:00pm Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center | 4305 Degnan Blvd #101, Los […]

Tendayi Sithole: “Re-Reading Steve Biko in the Archive: The Epistemology of the Interview”

“Re-Reading Steve Biko in the Archive: The Epistemology of the Interview”   Tendayi Sithole | University of South Africa     Monday, March 5, 2018 | 2:00 pm 10383 Bunche Hall Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.   Scholar/Critic/Poet Tendayi Sithole: "The archive and the interview assume the place of the original because they […]