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 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 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 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 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 Kind of Man I Am: Jazzmasculinity and the World of Charles Mingus, Jr. by Nichole Rustin-Paschal Thursday, February 22nd, 2018 12:00pm-1:30pm Black Forum, Haines Hall 153 The Kind of Man I Am: Jazzmasculinity and the World of Charles Mingus Jr. (Wesleyan 2017) is a gendered cultural history of jazz in the postwar period. She draws on […]
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 […]
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“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 […]
Conversations by Artists for Artists, Spring 2018 Sunday, March 25th, 2018 2:00pm-4:00pm California African American Museum | 600 State Drive Los Angeles, CA 90037 Charlyn Green (aka The Cosmic Goddess Herself) and Dr. Scot Brown continue this series conceived by artist Lisa C Soto and originally hosted at Soto Studio in Inglewood, which […]
