Events

February 4, 2026

Social Sciences Matrix

In the United States, immigrants of color have been treated as an exploitable and ultimately disposable labor force, especially now. Beyond unlivable wages and a lack of upward mobility, low-wage work in the U.S. is rife with danger and degrading treatment. Immigrants and people of color are overrepresented in these “bad jobs” and often feel as though they are unable to change their working conditions. In Legalized Inequalities, law scholar Kati L. Griffith, sociologist Shannon Gleeson, anthropologist Darlène Dubuisson, and political...

November 13, 2025

554 Social Sciences Building, Barbara Christian Conference Room

Join the Department of African American Studies (AAS) for a talk with anti-apartheid activist and singer/songwriter Andrea Prichett, organized by AAS Lecturer Rickey Vincent.

Andrea Prichett is an accomplished singer/songwriter, who practices what she preaches. When she is not making music, Andrea is a middle school teacher in Berkeley, an organizer with Berkeley Copwatch, and a founding member of the national Copwatch movement that has been working for over 30 years to stop police...

October 9, 2025

650 Social Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720

Co-organized with the Freedom Archives

Born in Jim Crow–era Monroe, North Carolina, Robert F. Williams and Mabel R. Williams were the state’s most legendary African American freedom fighters. The Williamses’ leadership in Monroe was just the beginning of a lifelong pursuit of freedom and justice for Black people in the United States and for oppressed populations throughout the world. Their activism foreshadowed major developments in the civil rights and Black Power movements, including Malcolm X’s...

Saturday, May 3, 2025

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Berkeley High School

The Banned Scholars Project in African American Studies at UC Berkeley and the African American Studies Department of Berkeley High School present a community convening about defending public education from kindergarten to college in the face of the current crisis. We invite Bay Area educators, students, and community members to join the conversation on how to resist the ongoing attacks and build collective resilience. Together, we will imagine new ways to strengthen support for public education in Berkeley and...