AKOMA Lifting Weary Voices, Raising Freedom's Song: Black Sacred Music as Resistance in the Civil Rights Movement. Rochester African American Women's Gospel Choir, Founder/Executive Director Arlette Miller Smith. More Details. Tuesday, January 27, 2009

A Lecture by Charles Cobb, Jr., field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordiniating Committee in the Mississippi Delta (1962) and Visiting Professor at Brown University. More Details.    Friday, March 10, 2009

"Geneseo Service Project with Wilson Commencement Park." Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration, all semester. More details. For more information, contact Kay Fly.

Friday January 25, 4:00 pm. Lecture: Iris Banister. Newton 201. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Event. More details. For more information, contact Emilye Crosby .

Thursday January 31, 7:00 pm. Lecture: Dave Dennis, "Quality Education as a Constitutional Right for all Children." College Union Ballroom. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Event. More details. For more information, contact Emilye Crosby .

Monday February 4, 5:00 pm. Film: "Ethnic Notions." Newton, room TBA. For more information, contact Fatima Rodriguez Johnson.

Wednesday February 6, 1:30-2:45 pm. Africana/Black Studies Reception and Open Meeting. Harding Lounge, Welles. For more information, contact Emilye Crosby.

Thursday February 7, 4:00 pm. Artist Lecture: Keth Morris Washington, "Within Our Gates: Site and Memory in the American Landscape." Exhibit: January 28 through February 22, Lederer Gallery. (These paintings probe American History by memorializing sites where lynchings occurred.) For more information, contact Cynthia Hawkins.

Friday February 8, 4:00 pm. John O'Neal Workshop Student Performance: "Concentric Stories." Sturges Auditorium. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Event. For more information, contact Emilye Crosby .

Monday February 11, 5:00 pm. Film: "Bamboozled," Discussion Lead by Professor Cathy Adams. Newton room TBA. For more information, contact Fatima Rodriguez Johnson.

Sunday March 9. 1:00-5:00 pm. "Race and Campus Culture Teach-in." College Union Ballroom. For more information, contact Beth McCoy.

2007 Campus Events
(sponsored by various campus organizations)

September 2007. "Diversity and Community at Geneseo: A Call to Action," All-College Meeting, Wednesday, September 12. 1:30p.m. - 2:45p.m. Newton 202

September 2007. Hasan Kwame Jeffries will lecture on "Making Sense of the Madness: Decoding the Many Responses to Black Power." Wednesday Sept 26, 3:00. Newton 214.

September 2007. Trip to hear lecture by Bernice Johnson Reagon at the Underground Railroad Conference, Rochester, Sept. 29.

October 2007 Culrural Harmony Week, Oct 20 through Oct 27

October 2007. Roland Freeman, "Some Things of Value: African American Expressive Culture." Lecture and Exhibit Opening, Monday Oct 22, 3:00, Alice Austin Theater

October 2007. Roemer Lecture on International Affairs. Nicolas Van De Walle, lecture entitled "Towards an African Renaissance? Prospects for a Troubled Continent." Thursday, October 11. 4:00p.m. – 5:15p.m. College Union Ballroom

October 2007. Wadsworth Lecture: Julian Bond, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 20 year member of the Georgia General Assembly, and current chairman of the NAACP Board. Wednesday, October 24. 7:00p.m. Wadsworth Auditorium

November 2007 Lederer Lecture: Amy Nathan-Wright, "The People and Images of the Mule Train," Lederer Gallery.

February 2007. Reception Honoring Dr. Ysaye Maria Barnwell. Link to poster (pdf)

February 2007. Underground Railroad Tour. Link to poster (pdf)

April 2007. Maria Varela Lecture. Link to poster (pdf)

April 2007. Dramatic Readings: 'Anything I was Big Enough to do': Women in the Civil Rights Movement. Link to poster (pdf)

March 2006. Local Studies, a National Movement: Toward a Historiography of the Black Freedom Movement. Link to poster (pdf)

Keep informed about the Black Studies/Africana Studies Events!
Subscribe to the list serv by visiting this web page: