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February 19, 2015

Charlotte "Mama C" O’Neal and the UAACC United African Alliance Community Center Heal the Community Tour 2015 Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 | 2-4 pm Multicultural Community Center Hearst Field Annex - D37, UC Berkeley (Bancroft Way between Bowditch & Telegraph) Program: 2 pm Film Screening of Mama C: Urban Warrior in the African Bush* 3 pm Presentation & Q&A For more information: 510-642-6528 or mcc.community@berkeley.edu Wheelchair accessible. Please call ahead for special needs. Charlotte Hill O’Neal, aka Mama C, is a vocalist, writer, poet and visual artist who has been performing professionally for more than twenty years and exhibiting her art work extensively since 1986. Mama C was born in Kansas…

February 10, 2015

Committed Cinema Thomas Allen Harris Much of Thomas Allen Harris’s film work has involved looking into his personal history, which was shaped by the absence of his father, childhood years spent in Tanzania, his gay identity, and a grandfather interested in photography. While the emotional resonance of his films may reside in his family stories, Harris opens up the possibility of political action and social change by placing them within larger community contexts. His films boldly move from pain to celebration, from the personal to the epic. Harris’s most recent film, Through a Lens Darkly, constructs a counter history of…

January 28, 2015

Alumni Robeson Taj Frazier, PhD has just published his first book, entitlted: The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination. He is an Assistant Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. Congratulations Taj! Description: During the Cold War, several prominent African American radical activist-intellectuals—including W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois, journalist William Worthy, Marxist feminist Vicki Garvin, and freedom fighters Mabel and Robert Williams—traveled and lived in China. There, they used a variety of media to express their solidarity with Chinese communism and to redefine the relationship between Asian…

January 23, 2015

UC Berkeley African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies Alumni Marlon M. Bailey, PhD has recently recieved a very special recognition. Professor Bailey's book, BUTCH QUEENS UP IN PUMPS: GENDER, PERFORMANCE, AND BALLROOM CULTURE IN DETROIT was awarded the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize from the GL/Q Caucus at the Modern Language Association (MLA). Congratulations Marlon!  

December 2, 2014

Identities in the Making: Dutch Colonialisms and Postcolonial Presents http://dutch.berkeley.edu/2014/11/december-3-4-graduate-conference-in-dutch-studies-identities-in-the-making-dutch-colonialisms-and-postcolonial-presents/

November 16, 2014

Aya de Leon says the persistent reality television trend limits representation and opportunities for Black women...   

October 9, 2014

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April 21, 2014

Soul Food, Politics, and Public Health A talk, demo and book signing with master chefs Bryant Terry and Njathi Wa Kabui. Bryant Terry is renowned for his activism for a healthy, just, and sustainable food system. Alice Waters says, ‘Bryant Terry knows that good food should be an everyday right and not a privilege.’ Chef Kabui is a food activist and anthropologist based in Durham, N.C. Born into a family of Kenyan coffee farmers, Kabui is dedicated to eradicating ‘food deserts.’

February 22, 2014

Professor Elijah Anderson William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology, Yale University   The black ghetto has become a major icon in American society and culture, and as such, it has also become an important source of stereotype, prejudice, and discrimination. From the days of slavery through the Civil Rights period, black people have occupied a caste-like status in American society. Today, despite the progressive changes wrought by the racial incorporation process of the 1960s and 1970s, the color line persists—albeit in a new, emergent form—in everyday life. Many blacks now reside in exclusive neighborhoods formerly off-limits to them, and…

December 19, 2013

Mandela’s work is our own by john powell