• Carrie Mae Weems: I once knew a girl...

    Saturday, January 7th, Noon

    Talk by Deborah Willis, "Posing Beauty"

    This talk is part of our Winter Fair, the last day of the Carrie Mae Weems: I once knew a girl... exhibition. Open from 10am-5pm, the Winter Fair will feature music, tours, and warming refreshments! 

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  • Spring Colloquium with Shaun Harper: Jan 25th

    Our weekly colloquium series returns on Wednesday, January 25th, as Shaun Harper discusses Black Men’s Postsecondary Education Attainment: Equity as Public (Dis)Interest.

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  • Screening of "I Am Not Your Negro": Jan 26th

    Join us on Thursday, January 26th, 7:00pm, at the Kendall Square Cinema for a special screening of I Am Not Your Negro.

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  • Screening of "Birth of a Movement": Jan 30th

    Please join us for the Boston-area premiere of Birth of a Movement at the Somerville Theatre, Monday, January 30th, at 6:30pm.

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  • Bobby Seale in Conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Feb 14th

    Join Bobby Seale in conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in the Tsai Auditorium at 4:00pm, Tuesday, February 14th.

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Applications Available for 2017-2018

Applications for the 2017-2018 class of W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows are now online. Deadline: January 23, 2017.

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Carrie Mae Weems: I once knew a girl...

On View Now! Sept 20 2016 - Jan 7 2017

The Cooper Gallery presents the evocative work of internationally acclaimed photography and video installation artist Carrie Mae Weems, recipient of the 2013 MacArthur “Genius” grant and the 2015 W. E. B. Du Bois Medal. 

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Classic Crates

This year, the Loeb Music Library at Harvard University, in collaboration with the Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, began its archive of 200 of the most influential hiphop albums.
 

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Childhood

Issue 121 Childhood considers symbolic and ideological deployments of black childhood and explores children’s lived experiences—from nineteenth century Yorubaland, to 1920s France, to present day Colombia, South Africa, and the United States.

 

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