UCLA Department of African American Studies

CAP UCLA presents Meshell Ndegeocello's celebration of James Baldwin
2020-11-29 - 2020-12-31
CAP UCLA presents Meshell Ndegeocello’s celebration of James Baldwin
Chapter and Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin is a 21st-century ritual tool kit for justice, shared in isolation, bridging communities around the world. Inspired by James Baldwin’s seminal treaty on justice in America, The Fire Next Time, the project was created during the time of two raging pandemics plaguing the United States — COVID-19 and racism.
Participants are invited to engage in an urgent and critical investigation of race, religion, sexual orientation, America and its status quo, celebrating Baldwin’s ideas and legacy through music, meditations, and visual imagery. The vernacular of a church service, structured rituals and worship, and other forms of sacred practice, inspire the gifts offered each month from September-December 2020, free of charge.

Call: Dial a toll-free telephone number to discover songs, meditations, and chants to ease your mind any time, day or night, when you need it most. 1-833-4-BALDWIN (1-833-422-5394).
See: Experience visual testimonies of Baldwin’s text, with original music created by Meshell and artistic collaborators, including Suné Woods, Nicholas Galanin, and Charlotte Brathwaite.
Read: Sign up for the monthly printed newsletter, featuring Baldwin’s words and calls to action, delivered four times, directly to your mailbox. To register to receive the broadsheet, click here before September 21st. One copy per household, please. We are currently unable to accommodate international mailing addresses.

"Lena Horne, Stormy Weather, and the Hollywood Supernova" by Dr. Philana Payton (UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow)
2020-11-20 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
“Lena Horne, Stormy Weather, and the Hollywood Supernova”
A Talk by Dr. Philana Payton (UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow)
November 20, 2020 at 4PM PST
Register Here

10-Year Anniversary of “Critical Race Theory, Race Equity, and Public Health: Toward Antiracism Praxis” Fall Symposium
2020-11-20 12:00 - 13:00
The Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, & Health presents the
“10-Year Anniversary of “Critical Race Theory, Race Equity, and Public Health: Toward Antiracism Praxis” Fall Symposium
Friday, November 20, 2020 at 12PM PT/3PM ET
Ten years ago, Dr. Chandra Ford and Dr. Collins Airhihenbuwa published, “Critical Race Theory, Race Equity, and Public Health” and “The Public Health Critical Race Methodology: Praxis for Antiracism Research”, revolutionary pieces of work that transformed the study of race within the field of public health and beyond. Join Dr. Terence Keel, Associate Director for Critical Theory at the UCLA Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, & Health, on Friday, November 20, 2020, at 12 pm PT/3 pm ET as he hosts a discussion with Dr. Ford and Dr. Airhihenbuwa about the origins and impact of their groundbreaking work, its continued importance, and the future of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in public health and biomedicine.
Registration Information can be found here: https://bit.ly/10YrCRTandPublicHealth

"Black Lives Matter—Past, Present, and Beyond" lecture series featuring Christopher Lebron
2020-11-20 09:00 - 11:00
“Black Lives Matter—Past, Present, and Beyond” lecture series
featuring Christopher Lebron
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
The Beautiful Ugly Struggle:
How Black Lives Mattered to Angela Davis and Amiri Baraka
Friday, November 20, 2020 at 9:00am PST
Live Streaming via Zoom
RSVP Here

"Thriving Industries During COVID: First Jobs out of College"
2020-11-18 16:00 - 17:00
“Thriving Industries During COVID: First Jobs out of College”
Learn successful job search strategies and hear from a panel of professionals who are working in thriving industries during COVID-19
Wednesday, November 18th | On Zoom | 4:00-5:00 pm (PST)

IAC Fall Forum
2020-11-18 15:00 - 16:00
Join us on Wednesday, November 18th @ 3pm for the annual IAC Fall Forum featuring the 2020–21 IAC visiting researchers and scholars, graduate and predoctoral fellows, and research grant awardees at UCLA’s four ethnic studies centers. Register @ https://bit.ly/3leyOMz

David Geffen School of Medicine, Virtual Info Session
2020-11-14 10:00 - 12:00
The David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM) at UCLA is hosting an Info session for all pre-medical students, graduate, undergraduate, and community college students. This session will focus on presenting on the MD and pre-medical programs DGSOM offers.
Date: November 14, 2020 (Time in PST)
10AM – 11AM: Information about our various MD Programs
11AM – 12PM: Information about our Pre-Health Pipeline Programs
If you are interested please register here: https://uclahs.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3C3jxeUd9NmfTU1
Deadline to register: November 9th, 2020
For more information please visit our website https://medschool.ucla.edu/apply/outreach or contacts us at: outreach@mednet.ucla.edu

RedSeaNet | Fall 2020 Webinar | Climate Change, Political Economy and Connectivity in the Red Sea Region
2020-11-11 07:30 - 2020-12-08 09:00
RedSeaNet | Fall 2020 Webinar
Climate Change, Political Economy and Connectivity in the Red Sea Region

Convened and moderated by Alden Young (UCLA) and Nathalie Peutz (NYUAD)

Supported by the Social Science Research Council’s Transregional Collaboratory on the Indian Ocean
To Register or For More Information Click Here

A Conversation on Community
2020-11-05 11:30 - 13:00
As we navigate 2020, please join the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for a special event – exploring and reaffirming UCLA’s commitment to inclusion and dignity for all.
When:
Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 11:30 am
Where:
The event will take place via Zoom. The specific Zoom link and instructions will be provided closer to the event date to all registrants.
Panelists:
Our full list of speakers will be announced very shortly.
RSVP:
Please RSVP at http://bit.ly/ucla_115. Admission is FREE for the UCLA community.
Please note: A valid UCLA e-mail address will be required for RSVP.

BSFA Forum on School Safety Reimagined
2020-11-02 12:00 - 17:00
UCLA Black Staff and Faculty Association
Join us for our BFSA Forum on
School Safety Reimagined
A panel discussion highlighting Black Bruin students, staff, and alumni helping to reimagine what school safety can look like from UCLA to South LA to Richmond, CA.
November 2nd, 2020
12:00pm

ABC (ABolition Curriculum) Organizing Meeting
2020-10-29 15:30 - 17:00
Join us and get in on the next ABC (Abolition Curriculum) organizing meeting!

Thursday 29th @ 3.30 – 5pm PST
Time: Oct 29, 2020
Zoom Meeting:
https://ucla.zoom.us/j/97860305106

Contextualizing BLM in the History of Slavery and Segregation
2020-10-23 16:00 - 17:00
Black Lives Matter: Global Perspectives Webinar Series
“Contextualizing BLM in the History of Slavery”

The series aims to provide a platform for scholars, students and activists to deepen our collective understanding of the structure and experience of racial oppression and the long struggle for racial justice, as well as to draw connections among unique, but interlinked antiracist struggles in the context of global histories of colonialism, imperialism and internationalism.

Friday, Oct. 23 — 4:00 p.m.

Speakers: Brenda Stevenson, Deborah Thomas
Register here: https://ucla.in/37lKM2M

Want to Make Connections for Your Career After UCLA?
2020-10-22 17:00 - 18:00
Come hear from a panel of former Bruin student-athletes about their paths to success hosted by AAP and the Arthur Ashe Legacy Project! RSVP now!

Is Now a Good Time? Inside Graduate School
2020-10-21 16:00 - 17:00
Is Now a Good Time? Inside Graduate School
Are you thinking about going to graduate or professional school? Is now the right time? We will be discussing some key areas to consider when making your decision. Some topics we will be addressing are living and working while going to school, transitioning to graduate school, and considerations for taking a gap year.
October 21st
4:00-5:00pm PST
RSVP for Zoom Link.
Student Attendees who come to the event, and fill out a short two question survey at the end are entered to win a $75 gift card to Amazon!
HCPS Event website with panelist bios: https://humanities.ucla.edu/career/hcps/events/is-now-a-good-time-inside-graduate-school/

Climate Change, Political Economy and Connectivity in the Red Sea Region
2020-10-21 - 2020-12-02
Climate Change, Political Economy and Connectivity in the Red Sea Region
convened and moderated by Professor Alden Young (UCLA) and Nathalie Peutz (NYU AD)

Check out the Fall Schedule here
https://www.redseanet.org/

10 Questions: What is Power?
2020-10-19 19:00 - 20:00
This fall, the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture returns with 10 Questions: Reckoning, the third installment of the annual event series that invites the public to join UCLA students in the virtual classroom to engage in vibrant conversation alongside leading faculty and distinguished alumni from across the university.
With COVID-19, the climate crisis, social and political turmoil unlike anything we have seen in a generation, and, of course, a presidential election on our minds, we will be asking our most urgent set of questions yet.
This week William Boyd, Chon Noriega, and Jemima Pierre, will join Victoria Marks, associate dean of academic affairs of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture and professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, to explore the question “What is Power?”
William Boyd, lawyer, scholar, and environmental advocate
Chon Noriega, art historian, media scholar, and curator
Jemima Pierre, Black studies scholar and anthropologist
Join the conversation. Follow UCLA Arts on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook so you never miss an update.
RSVP HERE

Black Convocation 2020
2020-10-06 17:00 - 19:00
Save the Date for Black Convocation 2020!
October 6, 2020 via Zoom.
More details to come!

BSFA Forum on California Ballot Measures 2020
2020-10-05 12:00 - 13:00
BSFA Forum on California Ballot Measures 2020
Monday, October 5th, 2020
12pm-1pm

A special program from the UCLA Black Staff & Faculty Association (BSFA) for stakeholders to hear why Prop 15, Prop 16, Prop 17, Prop 18, Prop 20, Prop 21, Prop 22, Prop 25, Measure J and voting matters today.

https://tinyurl.com/y5kaxngu
Presented by
UCLA BLACK STAFF & FACULTY ASSOCIATION in conjunction with UCLA Government & Community Relations

The Fire This Time: Race at Boiling Point
2020-06-05 13:00 - 16:00
The Fire This Time: Race at Boiling Point
Join us this Friday, June 5, at 1:00 pm PST for The Fire This Time: Race at Boiling Point, a conversation with Angela Y. Davis, Herman Gray, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Josh Kun.
Please RSVP to receive a personal link to the webinar: HERE

Charly Palmer Regents Lecture
2020-05-20 15:00 - 16:00
UCLA Regents Lecturer
Charly Palmer

Wednesday, May 20, 2020
3PM (PST), 6PM (EST)
Instagram LIVE @ucla_afam
In this lecture series, Charly Palmer discusses the role of the artist in protest movements and how to use art to not only communicate a feeling but also directly impact the world.
Q&A to follow.

"The Coming Mental Rage," a Poetry Reading and Performance by Will Alexander.
2020-03-10 15:00 - 17:00
“The Coming Mental Rage,” a Poetry Reading and Performance by Will Alexander
Tuesday, March 10th
3-5pm
Green Room, Rm. 1230
Schoenberg Music Building
Poet, essayist, novelist, playwright, philosopher, visual artist, musician, Will Alexander has been hailed as one of the most important surrealist voices on the planet. A native of Los Angeles, he earned his BA in English and creative writing from the University of California–Los Angeles in 1972. Alexander’s books of poetry include Across the Vapour Gulf (2017), Compression & Purity (2011), The Sri Lankan Loxodrome(2009), Asia & Haiti (1995), and The Stratospheric Canticles (1995). He has taught at many colleges and universities, including the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, the University of California, and Hofstra University, among others. His collection Singing In Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose, Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture (2013) was awarded an American Book Award. His other honors include a Whiting Fellowship for Poetry, a California Arts Council Fellowship, and the 2016 Jackson Poetry Prize.

Thinking Gender 2020: Sexual Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice
2020-03-06 08:00 - 18:30
This year marks Thinking Gender’s 30th anniversary!
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2020
CARNESALE COMMONS, UCLA
GENERAL REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
Pre-Register by Friday, February 28, 2020. In-person registration will also be available on the day of the event.
DETAILED SCHEDULE
Thinking Gender 2020 will focus on feminist, queer, trans, anti-carceral, transnational, and intersectional approaches to sexual violence.
Recent #MeToo mobilizations against high-profile predatory sexual abusers including Harvey Weinstein, R. Kelly, and Jeffrey Epstein have heightened public conversation around sexual violence. While important contributions have challenged dominant approaches to sexual violence, much of it has remained caught in legalistic, carceral, or criminal justice discourses that emphasize the punishment of individual actors to the exclusion of envisioning alternative definitions of repair and justice. Such dominant approaches center evidence and proof, and offer only the punishment of individual perpetrators as remedy, often in ways that exacerbate existing structural inequalities. Decades of scholarship and activism have demonstrated the inefficacy of such punitive models to curb sexual violence as well as the ways in which they exacerbate the policing of already marginalized communities.

KEYNOTE PANEL
Transformational Justice: Refusing Criminalization and Sexual Violence
Friday, March 6, 2020, 3:15 PM
Thinking Gender 2020: Sexual Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice will feature a keynote panel of scholars and activists, headlined by Mariame Kaba. The panel will follow an opening presentation by Tongva artist, Weshoyot Alvitre.
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Keynote Panelists:
Mariame Kaba
Founder and Director, Project NIA; Researcher-in-Residence, Social Justice Institute, Barnard Center for Research on Women

Mimi Kim
Assistant Professor of Social Work, California State University, Long Beach

Emily Thuma
Assistant Professor of American Politics and Public Law, University of Washington Tacoma

Sarah Haley (Moderator)
Chair, CSW Advisory Committee; Director, UCLA Black Feminism Initiative; Professor, Gender Studies and African American Studies

Keynote Opener:
Weshoyot Alvitre
Illustrator and Comic Book Artist, Tongva (Los Angeles Basin)

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
View Conference Overview
Check back regularly and join our email list for updates.

ACCESSIBILITY
THIS IS A FRAGRANCE-FREE EVENT. For the health and safety of all attendees, please refrain from wearing products that contain fragrances when attending CSW events. Such products include: perfumes, hair products, deodorants, detergents, etc. For more information on fragrance and accessibility, read about CSW’s Share the Air campaign.
If you require accommodations in order for this event to be accessible to you (e.g., sign language interpretation, large print materials, etc.), please contact thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu by Friday, February 14, 2020. For more information, visit our Events Accessibility Page.

PARKING AND ACCOMMODATIONS
Thinking Gender 2020 will take place at Carnesale Commons which is located in UCLA’s residential community known as the Hill.
Parking and Accommodations Information

CO-SPONSORED BY:

Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
African American Studies Department
African Studies Center
American Indian Studies Center
American Indian Studies Program
Anthropology Department
Asian American Studies Department
Asian American Studies Center
Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
Black Male Institute and Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families
Bruin Consent Coalition
Campus Assault Resources and Education (CARE)
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity
Center for Health Policy Research
Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, & Health
Center X
Chicana/o Studies Department
Chicano Studies Research Center
Community Health Sciences Department
Comparative Literature Department
Criminal Justice Program, UCLA School of Law
Disabilities Studies Program
Education Department
English Department
Fielding School of Public Health
Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History
Gender Studies Department
Healthy Campus Initiative
Humanities Division
Information Studies Department
Institute for Research on Labor & Employment
Institute of American Cultures
Institute of Transportation Studies
Institute on Inequality and Democracy
International Development and Policy Outreach
International Institute
Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center
Labor Center
Latin American Institute
Latino Policy and Politics Initiative
Office of Residential Life
Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies
Promise Institute for Human Rights
Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
School of Medicine-Office of Diversity Affairs
School of Nursing
School of Theater, Film, and Television
Social Sciences Division
Social Welfare Department
Sociology Department
UC Speaks Up
UC Global Health Institute’s Center of Expertise on Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment
Veterans Legal Clinic
Urban Planning Department
World Arts and Cultures/Dance Department

Thinking About Religion: Langston Hughes and a Literary Approach to the Study of African American Religious History
2020-03-04 16:00 - 17:30
Prof. Wallace Best will be giving a presentation on African American Religious History, with special attention given to Langston Hughe’s insights into the subject. If you are interested in the event, please RSVP at www.religion.ucla.edu.

WHILE BLACK WITH MK ASANTE presented by Snapchat
2020-03-02 18:00 - 19:00
WHILE BLACK WITH MK ASANTE
Monday, March 2, 2020
6:00pm-7:00pm
James Bridges Theater
WHILE BLACK WITH MK ASANTE presented by Snapchat Best-selling author, filmmaker and educator MK Asante is bringing his hit Snapchat show WHILE BLACK WITH MK ASANTE on the road, visiting college campuses across the country. Joined by special guest speakers, Asante will bring the show’s powerful messages to life, exploring what it means to be young, gifted and black in America. Don’t miss out on this exciting event and be a part of the conversation inspiring change.
Link to trailer here
Link to episode 1 on YouTube
Link to show profile page on Snapchat

QueerCurrent Lecture Series: “Dancing #BlackDeathMatters” by Shanté Smalls
2020-02-27 16:00 - 18:00
QueerCurrent Lecture Series:
“Dancing #BlackDeathMatters: Transness, Femmness, and Public Protest” by Shanté Smalls
February 27 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Royce Hall 314

LGBTQ Studies cordially invites you to their lecture series QueerCurrent. This talk takes seriously the work that Black dance can do as both public protest against State violence and as an aesthetic performance of Black aliveness. It will also discuss how dance interrupts and revises possibilities for living under conditions of antiblackness in the US.
Shanté Paradigm Smalls (they/them/theirs) is an Assistant Professor of Black Literature & Culture at St. John’s University in NYC and a 2019-2020 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the James Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory University in Atlanta. Their first scholarly book, Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City is forthcoming from NYU Press in late 2020. See more at shanteparadigm.com
Light refreshments
Please RSVP by February 21
Contact Claudia Defaz at cdefaz@humnet.ucla.edu for any questions.

Buy Back the Block: A Discussion About Nipsey Hussle and Gentrification in South L.A.
2020-02-25 18:00 - 20:00
The Common Experience Program and the Department of African American Studies presents:
Buy Back the Block:
A Discussion About Nipsey Hussle and Gentrification in South L.A.
Facilitated by Marcus A. Hunter, Chair of African American Studies and Kevin Powell, Civil & Human Rights Activist and Public Speaker

Tuesday, February 25th, 2020
6:00pm-8:00pm
Bradley International Hall 300
Free food at the event!

Black Excellence 2020
2020-02-19 16:00 - 19:00
Don’t miss out on this chance to meet and network with successful black professionals in a variety of career fields!
Check out the event HERE

“And You Know Who I Am”: Paul Robeson in Concert
2020-02-13 19:30 - 21:00
“And You Know Who I Am”: Paul Robeson in Concert
February 13, 2020
Royce 314 and Schoenberg Hall
We are pleased to present “And You Know Who I Am”: Paul Robeson in Concert (see attached draft flyer) in Schoenberg Hall on February 13, organized by Shana Redmond and the Center for Musical Humanities.
An afternoon symposium in Royce 314, “Everything Man: Author Meets Critics” will include scholars Tammy Kernodle (Miami U), Jeffrey C. Stewart (UCSB Pulitzer Prize winner), and Kevin Quashie (Brown U), and will focus on Shana Redmond’s Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson (Duke, 2020).
A free concert in Schoenberg Hall that evening will feature the Department of Music’s Chamber Singers (dir. James Bass) and Ethnomusicology’s Music of African Americans Ensemble (dir. Jonli Tunstall), with headliners Toshi Reagon and Steve McClain, singing various traditional numbers and culminating with “Ballad for Americans,” which was premiered by Paul Robeson 80 years ago.
Presented by the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities
Co-Sponsored by the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA Arts Initiative, UCLA Department of Musicology, UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA Department of Music, UCLA Department of African American Studies, UCLA Interdisciplinary and Cross Campus Affairs, Robin Kelley (Gary Nash Endowed Chair Funds), Associate Dean EDI for the Social Sciences, UCLA Global Jazz Studies
For more information, including links to RSVP:
Afternoon Panel: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/everything-man-author-meets-critics-ft-tammy-kernodle-miami-u-kevin-quashie-brown-and-jeffrey-stewart-ucsb/
Evening Concert: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/and-you-know-who-i-am-paul-robeson-in-concert/

RSVP link for both events: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/and-you-know-who-i-am-paul-robeson-in-concert-tickets-88008135703

Melnitz Repertory presents: Passing Through w/ Larry Clark in person (16mm)
2020-02-13 19:30 - 21:00
One of the greatest jazz films ever made, screening in its original format, with director Larry Clark in person

Thursday, February 13, 2020
7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theater, UCLA Melnitz 1409

Free screening!
16mm preservation print from the UCLA Film and Television Archive, co-presented by the UCLA Department of African-American Studies and the AMIA UCLA Student Chapter
With director Larry Clark in person for a conversation with film curator Jheanelle Brown (LA Filmforum)
REGISTER HERE
The explosion of African-American filmmakers who came out of UCLA’s film school in the 1970s—collectively referred to as the L.A. Rebellion—produced a groundbreaking body of work that is often difficult to see. Rarely screened, Larry Clark’s expressionistic celebration of Black jazz music and its resistance to commodification is one of the great neglected independent films of the era. When a saxophonist (Nathaniel Taylor) is released from jail, he considers and rejects a white-dominated music industry, seeking instead to reunite with his mentor (Clarence Muse) and his former bandmates. Unavailable on home video, we are honored to present Clark’s debut feature in its original format, with the filmmaker in person—to reappraise a film that, per Clark, “wasn’t made for release, it was made for the revolution.” Winner: Special Jury Prize, Locarno Film Festival (1977)
“One of the rare fiction features about the jazz world made by a black filmmaker… Original and thoughtful, this is a very special first feature, with a feeling for the music that’s boldly translated into film style.” -Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader
“A rarely seen but utterly remarkable graduation feature about jazz, the Attica prison riot, white exploitation of blacks in the music biz and revolution, featuring toothsome footage of Horace Tapscott’s Pan-Afrikan People’s Jazz Arkestra.” -The Guardian
Jheanelle Brown is a film curator/programmer and educator based in Los Angeles whose curatorial practice creates frameworks to explore the boundlessness of Black life in experimental and non-fiction film and video. She is interested in the space between fugitivity and futurity and elevating an ethic of care. Jheanelle is a board member and an associate programmer for Los Angeles Filmforum and recently served as guest co-curator, with Darol Olu Kae, for Black Radical Imagination. Jheanelle was co-curator, with Sarah Loyer, of Time Is Running Out of Time: Experimental Film and Video from the L.A. Rebellion and Today on view at Art + Practice. She is currently Special Faculty at California Institute of the Arts and Distinguished Visiting Artist at Otis College of Art and Design.
Please note: this screening is first-come, first-serve, with priority for those on the RSVP list or with Bruin ID cards.
Doors open at 7:00 and the screening will begin at 7:30pm.

E. Patrick Johnson discusses his new book "Honeypot" with Osun Joni L. Jones
2020-02-07 19:30 - 22:00
We are pleased to announce that author and scholar, E. Patrick Johnson, will be discussing his brand new book, “Honeypot”, with artist Osun Joni L. Jones. Honeypot is an engaging and moving book that reveals the complexity of identity while offering a creative method for scholarship to represent the lives of other people in a rich and dynamic way.

If you are interested in hearing more about this book, you are welcome to attend the discussion on February 7th from 7:30-10pm, at Skylight Books North Angeles (1818 N Vermont Ave Los Angeles, CA 90027).

See you there!
