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Nov 20
Unpacking Television News Networks’ Representation of #DefundThePolice
Oct 23
Brown Bag: Guluma -The African American Dream? Comparing Black Immigrant and Native-Born Black American Beliefs about Social Mobility
May 4
BSOS Research Showcase: Resilience Research Hub
Apr 26
BSOS Feller Lecture Starring Dr. Mary Frances Berry
Apr 19
Young African Inventors in the 20th and 21st Century with Dr. Odette Sangupamba Mwilu
Apr 12
“The Comrades Gave Me Money to Buy Things to Eat”: The Scottsboro Boys, Their Mothers, and the Crisis of Economy in the 1930s with Dr. Quincy Mills
Apr 6
Gender, Race and Drugs in South Africa: From Beer to Heroin and Xanax with Dr. Mark Hunter
Mar 15
Care as Praxis in Digital Black Feminism with Dr. Catherine Knight Steele
Mar 9
America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women & The Struggle for Justice with Treva Lindsey and Bettina Love
Feb 23
Making Black History Tangible: The Value of Material Culture and Museums
Feb 17
AFAM Brown Bag Research Meeting: Early Child Development in Adverse Environments: New Evidence from Nairobi, Kenya
Feb 7
MPRC Special Symposium: Social Contexts of Adolescent Wellbeing
Jan 23
2023 UMD Career Week
Nov 18
Research Presentation: Gender Incompatibility: Upwardly Mobile Black Professionals and the Construction of Competing Gender Identities with Dr. Marbella Hill
Nov 16
"Racialized Democracy in Latin America: A Theory of Structural and Discursive Salience" with GVPT Marcus Johnson
Nov 10
"Health Equity: At the Nexus of Science and Social Justice" with the Judge Alexander Williams Jr. Center for Education, Justice, and Ethics
Nov 9
Midterms 2022 Discussion Panel: Policy Projections: Brave New World or More of the Same?
Nov 9
Guest Lecture Series: The 2022 Hollywood Diversity Report with Dr. Darnell Hunt from UCLA
Nov 3
Dobbs and Disparities: Implications on Reproductive Health Care for Black and Marginalized Communities
Oct 26
“The Waiting Game”: The Pervasiveness and Proliferation of Anticipatory Stress During Jail Incarceration with Professor Kristin Turney from UC Irvine
Oct 12
"Second Killings: Black Women and Girls Left Behind to Grieve America's Growing Gun Violence Crisis" with Dr. Brooklynn Hitchens from the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Oct 5
"Decolonizing the (Un)Commonwealth: Pan-African Perspectives on the Movement for Reparations and the Legacy of Colonialism" with AASD, JAWC and Ghana
Sep 15
AASD Student Meet and Greet
Sep 14
The Afromantic with AMST La Marr Jurelle Bruce
Jul 21
Improving School Discipline Retreat
May 6
Department of African American Studies - Drop-In Information Session (May 2022)
Apr 25
DC International Film Festival: 'Life After the Gunshot'
Apr 20
Guest Lecture Series: "The Price of Slavery: A Critical Conversation" with Dr. F. Nick Nesbitt
Apr 18
Tulsa Race Massacre: Traveling Exhibit (Spring 2022)
Apr 7
Guest Lecture Series: "All Roads Lead: Why We Study Classica Africana" with Dr. E. Ashley Hairston