The keynote speaker at 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM will be geographer Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, who co-founded Critical Resistance (http://criticalresistance.org) and is one of the preeminent scholar-activists on prison abolition. Dr. Gilmore will speak on her upcoming bookChange Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition(https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1597-change-everything). The keynote speaker at 4:00 - 5:30 PM will be Chamorro environmental justice lawyer Julian Aguon, author of memoir/manifestoThe Properties of Perpetual Light(https://www.julianaguon.com) Read more
Please join us for the 7th Annual Black Youth Guidance Forum (BYGF). The theme for this year's event is Challenging Blockades to Health & Academic Achievement Among Youth of Color with keynote speaker Dr. Whitney Polk. Get more information and register for this event.
Entrepreneurship has been an integral part of the long-standing history of Chinese emigration and a central force in diasporic development. In this presentation, Dr. Min Zhou offers a historical overview of diasporic Chinese entrepreneurship, highlighting the divergent patterns of Chinese business development in North America in contrast to those in Southeast Asia, the center of the Chinese Diaspora. Read more
Please join the Department of Africana Studies for a discussion about The Future of Black Space on the Internet with Special Guest: Dr. Quintard Taylor, founder, BlackPast.org. Get more information and register for this event.
