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Changing History on the Blackside: Yesterday and Tomorrow in Music, Photography, Art, and Drama
Black History Month Calender, 2008
University of Massachusetts-Boston
February 13th 2008 12.00-1.30PM
Jeffry O. G. Ogbar speaks on his book Hip-Hop Lyrics and The Breaks Between Yesterday And Today
Professor Ogbar will talk about the contemporary slant in hip hop lyrics and the break between yesterday and today explored in his book.
February 20th 2008 2:30-4:00PM
LeRoy Henderson, documentary photograher, will take us on a visual tour of the last four decades, from the 1960s untill today.
February 26th 2008 2:30-4:00PM
Barry Gaither heads the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists in Roxbury and knows African American art backwards and forwards.
February 27th 2008 2:30-4:30PM
A staged reading of Fences by August Wilson, directed by Akiba Abaka, featuring some of Boston’s best actors.
Sponsored by the Office Of Student Activities, the Black Student Center, and the William Monroe Trotter Institute.
All events will be held in the Harbor Art Gallery, McCormack Building, First Floor, UMass Boston.
Refreshments will be served, and all are welcome.
For more information please call: 617-287-5880
Call for Papers
Fighting for Notice: A Hundred Years Later, Commemorating the 1907 Boston Meeting of the Niagara Movement
As part of the centennial celebration of the 1907 meeting of the Niagara Movement in Boston, the William Monroe Trotter Institute at UMASS Boston, along with the NAACP, is sponsoring a two-day, four-panel symposium (October 16-17), organized around the topic: Strong Men, Strong Women: Fighting for Their Rights. Click the link above for more details on research proposals.
Proposal deadline: September 1, 2007
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