Mon., Jan. 21, 1-3 pm
Lyrics: Boston University’s Annual Commemoration of MLK Day Speakers include faculty, staff and students from around the University, as well as dramatic performances and music by Herbert Jones.
Location: George Sherman Union, Metcalf Ballroom, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Tue., Feb. 5, 5 pm
“The Odyssey of Gregory White: His transition from maximum-security prisoner to merchant mariner, launched by a singular book on Black History.”
Talk and book signing by Gregory White and W. Jeffrey Bolster, Professor of History at University of New Hampshire and author of Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail.
Location: Florence & Chafetz Hillel House,Conservative Chapel, 213 Bay State Road Boston, MA
Fri. & Sat., Feb. 15-16
Sixth Annual Graduate Student Conference in Musicology & Ethnomusicology: MUSIC IN AND OF AMERICA
For more information, including the full schedule of events and locations, check out this PDF.
Tue., Feb 26, 5-7 pm
“The 150 Year War: Race And Emancipation In The Age Of Obama ”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Senior Editor, The Atlantic and author, “The Beautiful Struggle”
Location: African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline
Wed., Feb 27, 5:30-7:30 pm
“Follow Me Down” Film Screening and Talk
Benjamin Harbert, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Georgetown University
Sponsored by Dept. of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, African American Studies Program, Core Curriculum, Dept. of Music Education
Location: College of Fine Arts, Room 500 855 Commonwealth Avenue,, MA
Tue., March 5, 5 pm
One Drop Rule: Colorism and Black Consciousness
Janjay Innis, Coordinator and Professor Linda Heywood, Panel Moderator
Location: College of Arts and Science, 725 Commonwealth Ave. B36 Lower Level
Tue., March 19, 5 pm
“French Caribbeans in Africa: Diasporic Connections and Colonial Administration, 1880-1939”
Veronique Hélénon, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at UMass Boston
Location: African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline
Tue., April 2, 5-7 pm
The Zambos and the Emergence of the Miskitu Kingdom, 1641-1740.”
John Thornton, Professor of History and African American Studies
Location: African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline
Tue., April 9, 5 pm
Talk and book
James P. Marshall, Author,”Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi: Protest Politics and the Struggle for Racial Justice, 1960-1965″
Location: African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline
Tue., April 30, 5 pm
“Growing up Jewish in British Colonial Kenya and Mau Mau” Film screening and discussion
Kenny Mann, Filmmaker and Director
Location: African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline
Sat., May 18, time TBA
African American Studies Program Convocation 2013
Location: African American Studies Program Building, 138 Mountfort Street, Brookline