The community of Los Angeles became involved with the Civil Rights Movement in 1956 duringthe Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Civil Rights Exhibition premiering at the Museum of SocialJustice will introduce you to many of the dedicated artists, women and men who fought forFreedom, Justice and Equality in America. Most people are unaware of the important […]
Dr. Amina Hassan will discuss her book, Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist (University of Oklahoma Press, 2015). Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s, particularly in the fields of housing and education.Haines Hall 135
MICHAEL BROWN… FREDDIE GRAY… REKIA BOYD… ANDY LOPEZ… TAMIR RICE... ERIC GARNER… ONE AFTER ANOTHER—and so many others, precious Black and Brown lives—victims of police murder. The powers-that-be have continued to unleash their cops to kill and brutalize people, and have backed them up in these murderous deeds. These killings are the spearpoint of an […]
Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazzis Langston Hughes' homage in verse and music to the struggle for artistic and social freedom at home and abroad at the beginning of the 1960s. Together, the words, sounds and images recreate a magical moment in cultural history which bridges the Harlem renaissance, the post-World War II beat […]
Award-winning author Tananarive Due will discuss her debut collection of short fiction, Ghost Summer. In the stories, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghosts; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by Otherness.Due is former […]
Simone Browne is Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches and researches surveillance studies biometrics, airport protocol, popular culture, and black diaspora studies.YOUNG RESEARCH LIBRARY PRESENTATION ROOMReception Immediately Following Lecture
TREASURE tells the story of Shelley Treasure" Hilliard a 19-year-oldtransgender woman of color from Detroit whose brutal murder was not triedas a hate crime. The documentary is more than just a film created in honorof Shelley Hilliard’s life and her mother Lyniece Nelson’s, commitment tojustice for the trans community—it also explores “projections andperceptions…communities misrepresented and […]
Dr. Ethelene Whitmire will discuss her new biography, Regina Andrews: Harlem Re-naissance Librarian. The book offers the first full-length study of Andrews's sus-tained efforts to break down racial barriers, activism, and pioneering work with the New York Public Library. Whitmire is an associate professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University […]
Tomás Fernandez Robaina is a researcher at la Biblioteca Nacional in Havana and a professor at the University of Havana. He is a prolific author on AfroCuban issues. Robaina started writing in 1968 and in 1994 wrote El negro en Cuba 1902-1958: Apuntes para la historia de la lucha contra la discriminacion racial (The Blacks […]
Collins O. Airhihenbuwa, Ph.D.Professor and Head, Department of Biobehavioral HealthThe Pennsylvania State University“Culture, Race, and Research: A Voyage of Head and Heart”Monday, November 9, 2015 12:00pm to 1:00pm53-105 CHSHosted by the Prevention and Implementation Research Program SectionA light lunch will be served during the lecture. Admission is free but space is limited.
