The Robert C. Weaver Society & SOMOS present a Caribbean Heritage Month Event In Conversation with the authors of Provisions: The Roots of Caribbean Cooking Tuesday, May 18, 2021 6:00PM – 7:30PM Zoom Join BLS Associate Professor … Continue reading The Roots of Caribbean Food–May 18 @6PM
Y’all might recall Professor Regina Bernard’s powerful essay, “Why We Can’t Breathe,” about George Floyd’s murder. Here’s a recent essay, “In Inhale,” about Derek Chauvin’s murder conviction. Both were published in 433. “In Inhale” by Regina Bernard-Carreno “I sit in … Continue reading “In Inhale” by Professor Regina Bernard
Adjunct Professor Zamir Ben Dan, and his colleagues who from the Black Attorneys of the Legal Aid Caucus in New York, published this editorial, “Racial Progress Needs Systemic Change, Not a Rare Conviction” in The New York Law Journal’s digital … Continue reading On Derek Chauvin’s Conviction
On April 20, 2021 at 6:00 pm the Black Studies Colloquium will delve into a conversation about Black Studies focusing on the work of our esteemed colleague, Zachariah Mampilly (Endowed Chair of International Affairs, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs). In this round table discussion, we … Continue reading Black Studies and Diaspora
Join us on Thursday April 15 @1PM for a conversation with Dr. Yomaira Figueroa Vasquez, a scholar of U.S. Latinx Caribbean, Afro-Latinx, and Afro-Hispanic literature and culture, and author of Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature. She will be in conversation with Baruch students … Continue reading Yomaira Figueroa Vasquez on Thursday, April 15 @1PM
1:00 PM-2:00 PM In Sudden Darkness: Tayler Montague in conversation with Professor Bridgett M. Davis Film critic and curator Tayler Montague will present her debut short film, “In Sudden Darkness”, an intimate and loving portrait of a Black working-class family … Continue reading March 11: “In Sudden Darkness” with Tayler Montague
If there was ever a moment when you felt like the odds are staked against you, and you a powerless to make difference, remember Fannie Lou Hamer. She is a freedom fighter. She is a Black woman who made a … Continue reading Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
That song, “Rastaman Chant” by Bob Marley, recalls that spirit of resistance that empowers us. “Jamaica’s legendary Maroons were a band of escaped African people who escaped slavery and prevailed against recapture by British regiments and became permanently free—six decades … Continue reading #Jamaica #Maroons #BlackHistory
Black and Latino Studies has been at Baruch College for 50 years! Now, it will begin the long-anticipated process of creating a BLS major. In the interim, students can more easily pursue BLS as an ad-hoc major with this recommended … Continue reading Celebrating 50 Years of BLS at Baruch!
When the Trinidadian writer and activist C.L.R. James published Beyond the Boundary (1962), it was not just “one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written,” it inserted the international game of cricket into critical conversations about colonialism … Continue reading Fire in Babylon: West Indies Cricket + Anticolonial Resistance