Events for April 26, 2025

Blackness and Anti-Blackness in American Public Life

Zoom

Join us Wednesday, March 31st 4:30pm-6pm EST With a welcome from School of Communication Dean Karin Wilkins, and opening remarks from Dr. Jafari Allen, director of the UM Africana Studies Program. Blackness has been (and continues to be) under attack globally, but particularly within our country. As universities grapple with some of the wider-ranging and material effects of racism, particularly anti-Blackness, three scholars engage questions about the relationship of racial identity to social movements, media production, and intellectual property. Dr. Lisa M. Corrigan draws from her most-recent book Black Feelings: [...]