The Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity invites you to attend the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture on Wednesday, February 15 from 4-5:30 p.m.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president emeritus of University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will deliver a lecture Read More

First film screening: Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels (Tony Buba, 2014, 56 minutes).

Introduction by Leonora Masini, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Slavery and the Public Humanities at the CSSJ. The 30-minutes Q&A after the screening will host Prof. Marcus Rediker, Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of PittsburghRead More

This talk will be held via Zoom.

In this talk, Xine Yao will explore the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling—affects that are not recognized as feeling—as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. Yao will trace how works by Herman Melville, Martin R. Delany, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,Read More

Rescheduled!

Join Prof. Keisha N. Blain and Peniel E. Joseph in conversation about his most recent publication, The Third Reconstruction. 

“In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The racial reckoning that unfolded in 2020Read More

The newly launched Democracy Project is pleased to announce a lecture with Professor Eddie Glaude. One of the nation’s most prominent scholars, Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr. is an author, political commentator, public intellectual and passionate educator who examines the complex dynamics of the American experience. His writings, including Democracy in Black:Read More

NOTE NEW DATE: this is now scheduled for WEDNESDAY, February 8. It was originally scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 9. 

Emily A. Owens, David and Michelle Ebersman Assistant Professor of History at Brown, researches and teaches about U.S. slavery, the legalRead More

Current students and alumnae who have graduated within the last five years are invited to learn more about careers in social justice through this alumnae panel discussion with interactive breakout groups. To date, panelists include:

• Johanna Fernandez, Ph.D. ’93,
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Join Prof. Keisha N. Blain and Peniel E. Joseph in conversation about his most recent publication, The Third Reconstruction. 

“In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The racial reckoning that unfolded in 2020, he argues, marked theRead More

Join the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice (CSSJ) in celebration of the Center’s 10th anniversary with a performance by Marian Anderson String Quartet. No registration required

The critically-acclaimed all-female ensemble has performed at presidential inaugurations, the Library ofRead More

John B. King — The Role of Education in Protecting our Democracy

Tuesday, December 6, 2022 from 4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. DiCiccio Family Auditorium (Salomon 101)

Recent events - from growing inequality to the events of January 6, 2021 - are challenging our democracy more than at any point in the past fifty years. And while civic and political participation willRead More