Looking at beauty and particularly hair in the lens of critical race theory from the experience of hair beauticians.
Join the LGBT Resource Center in celebrating Black History Month with a screening and discussion of the documentary film MAJOR! (2015) about Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a formerly incarcerated Black transgender activist and elder who has been fighting for trans women of color's rights for over 40 years.
A networking event for graduate students at the University of Utah who identify as Black.
What is Black in Utah? Can we define it? Is there a culture, or norm? Let's talk about it. Let’s talk about is a conversation concept that allows for a space for meaningful conversation rather that is topics of sex, race, futurism, life, relationships ext. Aren’t you tired of being in a group setting and not having a meaningful conversation? By creating the space for people to have meaningful conversations, new friends can be made, tears might get shed, but most importantly our thought process and values can grow.
The Tanner Humanities Center is proud to host a conversation with assistant professor of history, Eric Herschthal, about his new book, "The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress"
During this engaging event, Dr. Peniel Joseph will discuss recent efforts to center the Black perspective and address issues of race and racism through television and film adaptations of comic books, such as Black Panther, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Watchmen, and Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The presentation—which will be followed by a panel discussion—will explore the evolution of these stories from paper to screen, discuss successes and failures in representation of the Black experience through these media, and offer perspective on where future storytelling could and should go.
Reframing the Conversation brings together experts from across campus and the community to spark important conversations around racism, othering, and safety.
Community Conversations are biweekly campus dialogues open to all students, faculty, staff, and community partners. An opportunity to build community, strengthen relationships, share thoughts and feelings, and learn from each other.
Join the Black Cultural Center and the Marriott Library for a lively discussion on the best books and movies for Black History Month.
A networking event for graduate students at the University of Utah who identify as Black.
Help the BCC digitize the records of the Colored Conventions, the nineteenth century’s longest campaign for Black civil rights.
In a 2011 study, Media Representations & Impact on the Lives of Black Men and Boys, conducted by The Opportunity Agenda, negative mass media portrayals were strongly linked with lower life expectations among black men. These portrayals not only help create barriers to advancement within our society, but also “make these positions seem natural and inevitable. In this panel discussion we will sit down with three panelist and discuss black male representation in media.
The Black Alumni Community and Black Cultural Center present: History of Utah Black Alumni. Join us for a virtual event, where we will hear from Black Alumni about experiences at the U and advice for current students/community members.
Conceived as a reimagining of director D.W. Griffith’s infamously racist 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation, DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of a Nation is a controversial and culturally significant project that examines how “...exploitation and political corruption still haunt the world to this day, but in radically different forms.”
Join us for a virtual book club discussion of Reginald Dwayne Betts' book of poetry, "Felon."
Come to a very Intimate Open Mic Night put on by the Black Cultural Center and UBLAC. Special Guest Wynter Storm
Come Celebrate Black Love with a movie night. Featuring "Love & basketball" and "School Daze" followed by a discussion.
n October 2018, the New York Times Magazine published Reginald Dwayne Betts long essay “Getting Out.” Several months later, the piece was awarded a National Magazine Award. The publication was another example of Betts entering into a new genre and bringing the same depth and richness of self-reflection and exploration of the central problem of this generation: incarceration and its effects of families and communities.
Community Conversations are biweekly campus dialogues open to all students, faculty, staff, and community partners. An opportunity to build community, strengthen relationships, share thoughts and feelings, and learn from each other.
Join us in celebrating American History, "The Color of Medicine: The Story of Homer G. Phillips Hospital." The film chronicles the rise and fall of St. Louis Missouri’s premier Black hospital that at one point in history trained the largest number of Black doctors and nurses in the world.
Friday Forums is a commitment to the state and region in elevating national conversations and showcasing models of disrupting complicit racism. Each session welcomes national thought leaders to lead discussions and provide opportunities for participants to share ideas on actionable items towards a diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus.
Intersectionality Here & Now reflects on this history to think with the debates surrounding intersectionality. Specifically, where, when, and how are we doing this concept? How are we teaching it, practicing it? What is required to do the doing of intersectionality? What can it yield? And how does intersectionality contribute to transformative decolonial justice?
Please join Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner for a screening of the film “I am Not Your Negro,” written by James Baldwin and directed by Raoul Peck, as part of our celebration of Black History Month.
In collaboration with the Black Faculty and Staff Association, the Black Cultural Center honors Black faculty and staff for their work on campus and in the community with the Black Faculty and Staff Awards each Black History Month (February).
Join and get to know M.E.Ch.A. We look forward to building community together!
