Take time this week to hear the stories of those who feel called to act. This media exhibit showcases different voices from the historical civil rights movement, as well as contemporary perspectives. Each listening and reading station highlights a different person engaged in the struggle for a just world with their own answer to why they could not remain silent. Free and open to the public.
Please join Keynote Speaker, Kent Blansett, followed by a roundtable (panel discussion) with Doug George-Kanentiio and Tom Porter, and conclude with a Q&A session.
Please join us for the formal celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Center for the Study of Culture Race and Ethnicity CSCRE. This event will be part reception, part panel discussion and all celebration. The reception will begin at 4:00 pm with a panel to follow at 4:30 pm. The reception will resume after the panel ends around 5:30 pm.
Toni Cade Bambara asked this question 40 years ago in The Salt Eaters. Right now, it is more relevant than ever for every / body. However, how do we get well when we have not named the things that have wounded and continue to wound us? What are the connections between being well and being free? How can Black Studies be a path that helps us acknowledge the struggle of birth AND untether us from the struggles that (will) kill us? Most importantly: When or if we get free, how do we stay free?
In 1969, a collective composed primarily of student-of-color student activists agreed to end what remains to this day the longest continuous student strike in the history of the United States. Enlivened, in a time of war and racial terror, by the idea that university resources could be repurposed toward the end of liberation, the strike’s culmination led to the official establishment of the first College of Ethnic Studies. In this talk, I return to the scene of the strike.
The Silent Crisis: Violence in Indian Country is rampant, starts young, and is chronically untended to. Survivors say the abuse changes them forever.
Join investigative journalist, Jenni Monet, a tribal citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna, in learning more about her findings and discoveries of a year-long investigation of cycles of violence among Native Americans in the United States.
In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century. Water Protectors knew this battle for native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that, even after the encampment was gone, their anticolonial struggle would continue. In Our History Is the Future, Nick Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance that led to the #NoDAPL movement.