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Tendayi Sithole Performs ‘Charles Mingus Workshop’ – A performance and poetic tribute to the great bassist/composer

Haines Hall 153 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Dr. Tendayi Sithole teaches political science at the University of South Africa and is the author of Steve Biko: Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness (2016); and the forthcoming Meditations in Black: Essays from the Limits of Being. His forthcoming jazz poetry collections include Blue Scripts for Johnny Dyani and Charles Mingus Corpus Opus.

Carol Anderson – “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy”

6275 Bunche Hall 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University, will discuss her forthcoming book, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy. Her previous book, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide, won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Her research has […]

“Dispossession & Enclosure: Reconsidering Education and Imprisonment” – a conversation with Sabina Vaught & Damien Sojoyner

Haines Hall 153 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Sabina Vaught is an associate professor and chair of the Tufts University Department of Education, and Damien Sojoyner is an assistant professor of anthropology at UC Irvine. They will discuss their respective books, Compulsory: Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School and First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles. Based on extensive ethnography, these […]

Aaron Kamugisha Lecture – “Beyond Coloniality: Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition”

Haines Hall 153 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Aaron Kamugisha is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. He is the editor of Caribbean Political Thought: The Colonial State to Caribbean Internationalisms (2013), Caribbean Political Thought: Theories of the Post-Colonial State (2013), (with Yanique Hume) Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora (2013) and Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance (2016), and with […]

The Bunche Library and Media Center Presents IMAGES IN BLACKNESS: “41st and Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers”

Haines Hall 153 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

“41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers,” directed by Gregory Everett, is the first part in a documentary series that follows the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party from its glorious Black Power beginnings to its tragic demise. Join us for a free screening and discussion following the film. […]

Ula Taylor Book Talk – “The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam”

6275 Bunche Hall 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization’s men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles. Black women’s experience in the NOI, however, has largely remained on the periphery of scholarship. Here, Ula Taylor documents their struggle to […]

Monique Bedasse Book Talk – “Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization”

Haines Hall 153 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Winner of the Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award from the National Council for Black Studies, Jah Kingdom uses Rastafarian repatriation to Tanzania to examine the transnational politics of pan-African ideas and praxis following the rise of independent nation-states across the Caribbean and Africa. “Jah Kingdom is the work of a talented, imaginative historian whose innovative approach […]

Discussion with Vaughn Rasberry, author of Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination

6275 Bunche Hall 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Join us for a discussion with Vaughn Rasberry, author of Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination (Harvard University Press, 2016). Vaughn Rasberry is an Associate Professor of English at Stanford University. He works on African American and African Diaspora literature, 20th-century U.S. fiction, postcolonial theory, and philosophical theories of modernity. Justin Desmangles, the […]

Walter Thompson-Hernández talk – “The Role of Public Scholarship in 2018”

Haines Hall 153 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

New York Times visual reporter, Walter Thompson-Hernández, will give a talk on “The Role of Public Scholarship in 2018.” Kelly Lytle Hernández, Professor of History and African American Studies at UCLA and Interim Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, will moderate this discussion about reaching broad audiences and doing public scholarship. Lunch will […]