FALL 2023 (Everyone is welcome)
August 31, 12PM-2 PM: Party on the Plaza
August 31, 6-8 PM: Mishkin Gallery Opening, “We didn’t ask permission, we did it anyway”
SEPTEMBER
September 7, 12:30-2PM: Latinx Heritage Month Opening Ceremony
September 14, 12:30-2:PM: Premier Cafecito
OCTOBER
October 3, 1-2:30 PM: “Framing Puerto Rico in the New Millenium” with Professors Rojo Robles, Viviana Rivera-Burgos @Mishkin Gallery
October 10, 10-2PM: BLS Community Service Day!
October 12: 2:30-4:00PM, Engleman Recital Hall: Screening of “Faith in Blackness” with discussion with filmmakers (Black Studies Colloquium)October 18 (evening): Caribbean Event with Alumni Affairs and Professor Keisha Allan
October 19, 12:30-2:30PM: AfroLatine Queer ‘Zine-making Workshop with Sharon Lee de la Cruz
NOVEMBER
November 14: Community Day with Mishkin Gallery Exhibition + Centro + performance by Joel “Yoyo” Rodríguez Vargas
Spring 2021
March 11 @1PM: “Black and Indigenous Resistance to Racist Backlash in the Americas” by Juliet Hooker
February 26 @11AM: Diversity Career Expo (sponsored by STARR Career Development Center)
February 25@5PM: Fulbright Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean (sponsored by ISLA)
February 25@1PM: Globus Conversation with Professor Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins University).
February 18@6PM! Celebrate the Afro-Latinx Traditions of Carnival (sponsored by ISLA)
February 18 @1PM : BLS Open House! (register here)
Digital Black History Month! Follow us on Instagram @BLS.Baruch
Fall 2020
September 16 @7PM
“Creating the Beloved Community” with Dr. Terri N. Watson (September 16 @7pm)
sponsored by CUNY Graduate Center’s Program in Urban Education
September 30 @ 7:30PM
“Change: Making Education More Equitable” with Tressie McMillian-Cottom
(Sponsored by CUNY Graduate Center Public Programming)
October 8 @12:30PM
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion @Baruch
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.
October 9 @11:10AM
“Negras, Enslaved Women Rebellion” with Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro + Rojo Robles
(Sponsored by the BSC and the Black and Latino Studies Department at Baruch)
October 22 @1PM
“Abolition and the Policing of Black Mothers” with Dorothy Roberts + Erica Richardson (October 22 @1pm)
(Sponsored by the BSC)
October 23-29
“Driving while Black” with Roberta Gumbel + Erica Richardson with Baruch Students, Jaelin Meegan +Teona Pagan
(Sponsored by Baruch Performing Arts Center)
Spring 2020
April 16: AN INTERGENERATIONAL CONVERSATION ABOUT A MULTIGENERATIONAL STRUGGLE