Fall 2023 Events

October 12, 2023 @ 2:30 pm, at Engleman Recital Hall, Baruch College

Faith in Blackness Screening and Conversation with Producer Guesnerth Josue Perea

Spring 2023 Events

April 26, 2023 @ 12:50 pm Room: A 17 Lex 1000H

Afro-Latinidades: “Rito de Paso/ Rite of Passage”: A Performance by Helen Ceballos

Fall 2022 Events

November 30, 2022 @ 4:10 pm on Zoom

Afro-Latinidades: A Conversation with Dr. Amina Gautier

October 13 and October 14, 2022 on Zoom

Black Futures Symposium: Black Ecologies

Spring 2022 Events

April 28, 2022 @6:00pm on Zoom

“”Such is Aunt Nancy:” Gender, Scavenging, and Racial Capitalism on the Harlem Renaissance Stage” Work-in-Progress Presentation by Erica Richardson April 28, 2022 on Zoom”

April 14, 2022 @ 1:00 pm

“Conversations with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of UNDROWNED:  Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals”. On April 14 @1PM (on Zoom)

April 5th, 2022 @12:30-2:30 pm

Black Futures in the Classroom Part II: Faculty workshop

March 31st, 2022 @12:30-2:30pm

Black Futures in the Classroom Part I: Faculty and Student Teach-in March 22, 2022, 12:30-2:30pm (on Zoom)

March 16, 2022 @ 6:00pm

Presentation and discussion with activist, scholar, and writer, Pedro Lebron Ortiz moderated by Professor Rojo Robles.  

March 1, 2022 @ 6:00pm

Screening Quilombo (1984) with a discussion of Racial Capitalism, Imperialism, Radical Black Feminism and Impossible Archives with Professor Tshombe Miles (Black and Latino Studies), Professor Rojo Robles (Black and Latino Studies), and  Professor Erica Richardson (English).

February 16, 2022 @6:00pm

Worshop of Professor Hector Cordero-Guzman (Marxe)’s article, “Racial Imaginaries, Classification Schemas and Place in Puerto Rico and among Puerto Ricans in the Continental USA,” ), moderated by Professor Rojo Robles (Black and Latino Studies)

Fall 2021 Events

December 2, 2021 @ 1:00pm

“Historic Firsts in U.S. Elections” a Talk by Evelyn Simien (University of Connecticut, Political Science)

November 3, 2021 @ 6:00pm

“The Fight Against Racial Capitalism: From Maroon Communities to the Haitian Revolution” Tshombe Miles Weissman, a Baruch Faculty Research Presentation. Moderated by Rojo Robles 

2021 Events

March 11@ 1PM

“Black and Indigenous Resistance to Racist Backlash Across the Americas” a talk by Juliet Hooker

March 4@ 6PM

Community Happy Hour for all faculty and staff interested in Black Studies.

2020  Events

September 16 @7PM

“Creating the Beloved Community” with Dr. Terri N. Watson

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 9 @11:10AM

“Negras:  Stories of Puerto Rican Slave Women” 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

“dwb” or “Driving while Black” with Roberta Gumbel + Erica Richardson

To get digital access to watch the 50 min music performance piece click here.  Click here to register for the talk. To join a live discussion about “dwb.” To watch and live discussion of the music theater piece “dwb,” featuring artists, professors, and Baruch students on October 29 at 6:00pm on Youtube live, click here.

(Sponsored by Baruch Performing Arts Center)