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The following is a listing of upcoming events happening on the UMD campus and in the surrounding areas aligned with the BlackLivesMatter Movement .

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Busboys and Politics, Brookland

625 Monroe St NE, Washington, DC 20017

Pearl Bailey Room | November 16, 2015 | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets, Brookland, presents James Kilgore to discuss his new book Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time.

Once the “land of the free,” today the U.S. is the world’s largest jailer. Over the last 40 years, as Kilgore, author of We Are All Zimbabweans Now, documents in this well-illustrated People’s Guide, the country has witnessed an explosive growth in prison populations, especially of minorities and the poor. Seeking explanations for these demographics, Kilgore, a student activist and former SLA member who lived in South Africa for 27 years until his extradition and imprisonment in the U.S., combines history, economics, statistics, and prisoners’ own stories to show how the criminal justice system has been used to try to resolve issues of racial conflict, inequality, citizenship, gender and sexuality.

Kilgore will be in conversation with Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project.

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TANYA GOLASH-BOZA - DEPORTED: POLICING IMMIGRANTS, DISPOSABLE LABOR AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM

Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 1 p.m.

Politics & Prose

5015 Connecticut Ave. NW

Washington, D.C. 20008

Since 1997, the U.S. has deported five million people—double the number prior to 1996. The statistics speak for themselves—almost. The individuals behind these numbers have real lives and real stories, and in her fifth book, Golash-Boza, University of California, Merced, associate professor of sociology, author of Immigration Nation and a contributor to media outlets including Al Jazeera and The Nation, presents details of nearly 150 deportees, the vast majority of them Latin American and Caribbean men. From this basic profile, Golash-Boza explores the wider socio-economic conditions at work, from race and employment status to a criminal justice system whose only way out for immigrants is deportation.

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During the past couple of years in which identity politics have taken center stage, multimedia artist Jefferson Pinder examines the 21st–century social conflicts through break dancing. Working with the international b–boy crew Lionz of Zion, Pinder directs a performance that wrestles with the nature of violence and control. The performance unfolds contemporary uprisings and the forces that seek to control them. Dark Matter(s) is organized by the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of African America Art and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland in collaboration with The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.

Dark Matter(s)

Friday, September 11, 2015 6–8PM at The David C. Driskell Center

1207 Cole Student Activities Building. University of Maryland, College Park

Performance is followed by a conversation with the artist and dancers Friday’s performance is supported by the David C. Driskell Center, the College of Arts and Humanities and the Department of Art at the University of Maryland, College Park

Space is very limited. RSVP by September 8, 2015 contact by email [email protected] or by phone [phone]

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Director Stanley Nelson will be at DC’s E Street Cinema screenings at 7:15pm on Friday, September 18 and Saturday, September 19.

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Home Page for the Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture site at Boston College

Boston College’s Diversity Challenge: Race, Culture, and Social Justice

Friday, October 23-Saturday, October 24

Registration discounts before September 24

The Institute was founded in 2000 at Boston College by Dr. Janet E. Helms to promote the assets and address the societal conflicts associated with race and culture in theory and research, mental health practice, education, business, and society generally. The Institute solicits, designs, and distributes effective interventions with a proactive, practical focus. Each year the Institute addresses a racial or cultural issue that could benefit from a pragmatic, scholarly, and/or grassroots focus through the Diversity Challenge conference. The theme of Diversity Challenge 2015 is: Race, Culture, and Social Justice.

What is social justice with respect to race and ethnic culture? It is easier to say what social justice is This year’s Diversity Challenge will explore a variety of social justice perspectives and issues and address mutual concerns related to race, ethnic culture, and social justice defined in various ways. Our goal is to stimulate dialogue and action with respect to racial or cultural factors and social justice.

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The Politics Of Archiving #BlackLivesMatter

Archives are spaces in which materials of historic interest or cultural significance are stored and ordered. Archives have a unique power to capture and

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This is my DIRECT response to the media, the injustice and inequality of our justice system, police brutality, and the overall undermining bigotry in this country. This is just how I feel as an educated Black man living in America. ps People keep pointing out that *engineering is spelled wrong, there’s a reason for that. You have to decipher what’s being said, that’s the beauty of art. 

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A discussion in response to the violence in Baltimore

Where: 1142A Family Science Conference Room; School of Public Health; UMD

When: Wednesday, April 29th, 2015 4:30-6pm

What: A safe space to process emotional reactions to the event on Monday, have a constructive conversation about how to help the Baltimore community, and share thoughts about community violence

Who: All students (undergrad and grad) welcome!

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Black.Lives.Matter at UMD

2:30-3:00pm | Tuesday 5/5/15 the Sundial at the McKeldin Mall wear a black shirt Solidarity Conversation to follow 3:00-4:30pm

To register for the solidarity event click here. If you register before April 24th, receive a free BlackLivesMatter at UMD t-shirt.

Questions? [email protected]

This event seeks to strengthen and expand solidarity with the Black Lives Matter Movement at the University of Maryland.  Over the past few months, the #BlackLivesMatter Movement at UMD, as part of the larger national movement, has offered programming to address the racial, sociopolitical, cultural, and structural beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, and processes which contribute to the marginalization, criminalization, and violence toward Black people. This event honors the work that has been done and is continuing to be done to support the #BlackLivesMatter Movement on our campus and in our communities. For more information: diversity.umd.edu/BLM.pdf