Students: your study is necessary, invaluable, and life changing! This new “Alex Tha Great” scholarship is one way to celebrate your work. Please see below: Submission Period: August 1,2020-Feb 2, 2021 Eligibility: Open to all residents of United States and … Continue reading Black Studies Scholarship!
New York City residents have been forced to contend with long-running racial and economic disparities in public health, housing security, policing, and education. These political, social, and racial dimensions of structural inequality have been magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic. This … Continue reading Speaking Truth to Power–December 3 @6PM
I have never had a “bad” class. I have found certain classes to be more difficult than others, at first, that is, until I find out how best to relate to a specific group of students. I firmly believe that … Continue reading Professor Arthur Lewin on Teaching
May Joseph (poet) and Nicolas Premier (filmmaker) discuss their most recent works and their commentaries on Africa, African Diaspora, memory, media, and history on Friday, October 30 @1pm.Register in advance to receive the Zoom link History is a media, a work … Continue reading “Africa is the Future” + “ghosts of lumumba” October 30 @1PM
In the final week of this charged and consequential election season, the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Political Science Department, in partnership with the Department of Black and Latinx Studies, is convening a roundtable conversation to discuss the role … Continue reading Identity Politics and the 2020 Election–October 29 @6PM
On Thursday, October 22 at 1:30 PM, the Black Studies Colloquium (BSC) and the Black and Latino Studies (BLS) Department at Baruch College will host a talk entitled “Abolition and the Policing of Black Mothers” by an acclaimed scholar of … Continue reading Abolition and the Policing of Black Mothers – October 22
HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? is a multidisciplinary collective of 45 African diasporic artists who have lived and worked together, in various iterations, for the past twenty years. The collective identifies as a primarily Black, mostly queer group that consists of visual … Continue reading “How Do You Say Yam in African?” Digital Exhibition October 12-November 25, 2020
Black women took part in thousands of individual and group escapes during slavery in the Americas. They actively played central roles in insurrections and revolts. In this collection of stories, Arroyo Pizarro examines how, exploited as they were by slavery … Continue reading Negras, Enslaved Women Rebellion–October 9
Please join BLS Professor Karanja Keita Carroll, the Professional Staff Congress, and other Baruch community faculty, students, and staff talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion from a range of perspectives. The conversation takes place on October 8, from 12:30-2:00pm via … Continue reading Get in the Conversation: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion @ Baruch
On this episode of “Unmuted Africa,” BLS professor Dr. Karanja Keita Carroll explains the discipline of Africana Studies. What is its purpose? Why, when and how did it start? Not only does Dr. Carroll show the void that the discipline … Continue reading Africana Studies, Pan-Africanism, and How to Read Cheikh Anta Diop