Martha S. Jones, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, will give a virtual talk on race and suffrage. Professor Jones’s books include Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All (2020) and Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (2018). […]

  BLACK LIVES MATTER. Community, Equity and Diversity (CED) established the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) 365 Symposium as a virtual “third space” for University of Rhode Island students, faculty, staff, alumni, affiliates, and community members to convene conversations about diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice, and decolonization. The conversations will take many forms, including panels, workshops, […]

Lewis Gordon, Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, will examine the philosophical implications of Black music and the importance of art for human resilience in the face of historical misery and metaphysical homelessness.

Join us for a conversation with La Colectiva Feminista, an activist group founded by university students in Puerto Rico in 2013.

Professor Kendall Moore will discuss the evolution of her work and explain how certain choices made by artists of African descent are part of a larger resistance movement.