2021 Diaspora Lecture

  Joe W. Trotter, Jr. will deliver the 2021 Diaspora Lecture and discuss his latest publication Workers on Arrival: Black Labor and the Making of America. From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the Black working class stands at the center of perceptions of […]

2021 African American History Month Lecture

  Distinguished journalist, educator and activist Charles E. Cobb will deliver the 2021 African American History Month Lecture on Tuesday, February 23 AT 6:30pm EST via Zoom. Cobb is a founding member of the National Association of Black Journalists. As a field secretary with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), he originated the idea of […]

2021 Writer’s Discussion Series: Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vasquez

This event will be presented via Zoom teleconference. Please RSVP here to receive the Zoom link. Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the works of diasporic writers and artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba offer […]

2021 Author’s Discussion Series: Ricardo A. Wilson II

This event will be presented via Zoom teleconference. Please RSVP here to receive the Zoom link. The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness Despite New Spain’s significant participation in the early transatlantic slave trade, the collective imagination of the Mexican nation evolved in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to […]

Roundtable Discussion: Conceptualizations of Race, Blackness, and Identity in North Africa

Join the UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies and the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies on April 19 at 3:30 p.m. EST for an important conversation on Conceptualizations of Race, Blackness, and Identity in North Africa. While there are rich cultural and historical connections between North and sub-Saharan Africa, complex divisions exist […]

2022 Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film Kickoff

Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NC

Diaspora Film Festival Kickoff: UNC-Chapel Alum, Resita Cox’s Acclaimed Documentary, FREEDOM HILL, Spotlights the Oldest Town Tncorporated by Freed, Formerly Enslaved People in the United States. Thursday, September 29, 6:00PM at the Varsity Theater , 123 E Franklin Street, Chapel Hill