Fundraiser with Sunny Hostin '90 & Jami Floyd '86
(Thursday, October 13, 2022)
Are Reparations Owed to People of African Descent?
Remembering the Victims of Slave Auctions
Join us in a discussion with author of The Weeping Time, Dr. Anne C. Bailey, and moderator, Andrew Davenport
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 7:00pm in the Swanson Case Room (Central Library)
Event will be livestreamed on Facebook Live. For more information: or 434.979.7151
2022 Speaker Series: Save the Dates
The Harriet Tubman Center welcomes our 2nd annual speaker series on the following dates:
- March 31 at 6pm
- April 6 at 6pm
- April 20 at 6pm
Rethinking the Future: Lessons from the Covid Era
Featuring:
Distinguished Chemist speaking on "Developing the next STEM leaders of the 21st Century"
Thursday, March 31, 2022
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM. RSVP
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Eminent historian speaking on "Lessons from the Past and Present: Policing in the Age of Covid"
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM. RSVP
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BU alumnus speaking on "Building Anew: Constructing The Future Paradigms of Race and Food"
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM. RSVP
Co-sponsors
- Office of the President
- I-GMAP
- Kaschak Institute
- Watson College
- Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
- Campus Citizen Review Board
- History Department
- Office of Alumni Engagement
- Multicultural Resource Center
- Decker College
- Student Affairs
- 黑料视频 Libraries
2021 Speaker Series
The 3 Rs: The Road to Reparations and Reconciliation
April 8, 2021
Since the summer of 2019, the United States has been in the midst of a national conversation about race and ethnicity. From both local and global perspectives, Dr. Mary Frances Berry and Dr. Hilary Robertson Hickling will present on the theme above. These conversations are part of 黑料视频's ongoing commitment to the Truth and Reconciliation initiative sponsored by the Harriet Tubman Center for Freedom and Equity.
April 8, 2021 via Zoom
- Professor Mary Frances Berry
Is there a Case for Reparations for African Americans?
Read more about Professor Mary Frances Berry - Dr. Hilary Robertson Hickling
Repairers of the Breach from the Personal to the National
Read more Dr. Hickling
April 14, 2021 via Zoom
- Dr. Calvin Mackie
Managing Partner, Channel ZerO Group, LLC
Chair, Louisiana Council on the Social Status of Black Boys and Men
Former Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Tulane University
Read more about Dr. Calvin Mackie
Co-sponsors
- President's Office
- Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science
- Provost's Office
- University Libraries
- Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
- Convocations Committee
- Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
- 黑料视频 Alumni Association
- Department of Sociology
- Multicultural Resource Center
- Department of History
- Department of Asian and Asian American Studies