Upcoming Events

Berkeley Black Graduation   Registration link here Saturday, May 20, 2023 at 9:00 am  Zellerbach Hall Berkeley, CA Tickets go on sale April 18th for $10.00 at the Zellerbach box office and will also be on sale the day of graduation. Registered graduates will get 2 complimentary tickets. Lindsey Villarreal will email students when they are ready to be picked up in the African American Studies main office in 660 Social Sciences Building. African American Studies Majors, Masters and PhDs get 10 COMPLIMENTARY tickets.   

Register here to attend! Drawing on the history of Black food preservation techniques and memories of his maternal grandmother’s pantry in her Memphis home, chef and artist Bryant Terry presents his sculptural work “Sacred Larder” followed by a live performance with his mother (as she embodies her mother cooking and singing) and artist Joshua Gabriel.  Speakers Bryant Terry, Abolition Democracy Artist Fellow, Black Studies Collaboratory, Department of African American Studies, UC Berkeley  Bryant Terry by Adrian Octavius Walker Bryant Terry is a James Beard and NAACP Image Award-winning chef, educator, and author renowned for his activism to create a healthy,…

Register here to attend! This panel will be a rare opportunity to peek into Deaf culture and to hear from Black Deaf individuals in the arts world. We will discuss how to work with Deaf directors, artists, performers, and dancers; debunk the myths and realities of Deaf dancers; and how people of color face a “triple whammy,” maybe quadruple or more, because they are already Deaf and experience specific discrimination in this intersection. We will have Michelle Banks, Fred Beam, Harold Foxx and Ashlea Hayes with Antoine Hunter facilitating the conversation.  Panelists Antoine Hunter, Abolition Democracy Artist Fellow, Black Studies…

Register here to attend! Join Cat Brooks and Alecia Harger for conversation and an artistic journey exploring the role trauma plays in the lives of Black people in America. In “In White Supremacy, Black Trauma and Healing Justice as a Liberatory Practice,” Cat and Alecia utilize research, art, performance, multi media, and Healing Justice modalities to examine the pathways North American Africans chart to surviving trauma, how that trauma interrupts the building of thriving lives and liberation movements, along with the healing modalities necessary for the transmutation of that trauma into healing and action. The session will include an excerpt…

Register here to attend! Photo credit: Donald Cunningham Recently discovered were 4,000 never-before-seen images documenting the later years of the Black Panther Party (BPP) focusing on the party’s community programs in Oakland. This event will provide the first public look at this extraordinary photo archive and pull back the curtain on the BPP’s flagship educational achievement: The Oakland Community School. Panelists Lisbet Tellefsen, Abolition Democracy Archivist in Residence Fellow, Black Studies Collaboratory, Department of African American Studies, UC Berkeley  Lisbet Tellesfen by Lewis Watts Lisbet Tellefsen (she/her), is an Oakland, California based community archivist, curator, producer, and publisher who has…

    Register The Long Arc of Freedom Struggles is a discussion of Dan Berger’s latest publication, “Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey featuring Professor Dan Berger, Professor Waldo Martin, Professor Ula Taylor, and International Human Rights and Peace Activist Michael Simmons.   March 8, 2023 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM   Featured Speakers: Dan Berger, Professor, Comparative Ethnic Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Scholarship School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell Waldo Martin, Professor, Department of History, UC Berkeley Michael Simmons, International Human Rights and Peace Activist…

Register The Long Arc of Freedom Struggles is a discussion of Dan Berger’s latest publication, “Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey featuring Professor Dan Berger, Professor Waldo Martin, Professor Ula Taylor, and International Human Rights and Peace Activist Michael Simmons. March 8, 2023 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM   Featured Speakers: Dan Berger, Professor, Comparative Ethnic Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Scholarship School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell Waldo Martin, Professor, Department of History, UC Berkeley Michael Simmons, International Human Rights and Peace Activist Ula Taylor, Professor, African…

Register here to attend! In this public conversation, BSC Fellow Rashad Arman Timmons will engage Michael Brown Sr. and Cal Brown in conversation about their continued fight to keep the memory and legacy of Michael Brown Jr. alive. The discussion will consider the enduring significance of Ferguson in the nation’s racial landscape and ponder black grief as a resource for social transformation. This event will offer the opportunity to dialogue with the Brown family and think collaboratively about how to build a world free of racial violence. Panelists Rashad Arman Timmons, Abolition Democracy Dissertation Fellow, Black Studies Collaboratory and PhD…

Register here to attend! “On Erotic Mastery”: Pornography, Hip-Hop Feminisms, and Transness brings together academics, activists, and creatives for a lively performance and conversation on the following themes: black feminisms, hip-hop, queerness, transness, the erotic, pornography, pleasure, and policing. Please come join us for an afternoon of creativity, criticality, and celebration!  Panelists Peace And Love El Henson (she/they), Abolition Democracy Postdoctoral Fellow, Black Studies Collaboratory, Department of African American Studies, UC Berkeley    Peace And Love El Henson Peace And Love El Henson, Ph.D. is a black feminist urban ethnographer and critical porn studies analyst. She does research and teaching as…

Register here to attend! Join BSC Abolition Democracy Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Victoria Grubbs for a documentary screening of Hit2Hit: Battle of Celebrated Rwandan Music Producers Trackslayer and Dr. Nganji and conversation with The Trackslayer and Dr. Nganji, two of Rwanda’s top music producers, and Dr. James Gordon Williams, Assistant Professor Music at UC Santa Cruz. The discussion will aim to spark a broader dialogue about the function of popular music in a post-genocide context.  Panelists Victoria Grubbs, Abolition Democracy Postdoctoral Fellow, Black Studies Collaboratory, Department of African American Studies, UC Berkeley      Victoria Netanus Grubbs by Yvan Planet Photography, Rwanda Victoria…