2024-2025 Event Schedule - Africana Studies Program

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The Fight For Haiti: A Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Thursday, September 26th | 6:00-9:00PM | Blackman Auditorium

Africana Studies hosts a screening of Madan Sara filmmaker Etant Dupain’s newest film, The Fight for Haiti. The film chronicles the Kot Kòb PetroCaribe movement, a unique grassroots social justice movement in Haiti. The screening will be followed by a panel conversation with Dupain and two Haitian activists also featured in the film Pascale Solages, co-founder of Nègès Mawon, and education access advocate Ilio Durandis.
Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law

Wednesday, October 23rd | 11:30am-2:30pm | The Cabral Center

Northeastern University’s School of Law Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) and Africana Studies program host authors Patricia Williams and Linda Greenhouse in conversation to discuss Patricia’s newest book, The Miracle of The Black Leg: notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law.
We Refuse: An Examination of Black Resistance with Kellie Carter Jackson

Wednesday, October 30th | 4:00-6:00PM | Alumni Center

Join us for an exciting public conversation with author Kellie Carter Jackson as she discusses her most recent book, We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance. Clear-eyed, impassioned, and ultimately hopeful, We Refuse offers a fundamental corrective to the historical record, a love letter to Black resilience, and a path toward liberation.