Join Dr. Dan Friedman, historian, playwright, and life-long community organizer in this gathering to speak-out loud and proud our communities’ and families’ political histories. Come prepared to share your story, a photo (if you have one), and, if they’re down for it, bring your family along!
Theatre-maker Brian Mullin has received seed funding from Kings College London, along with director Tian Brown-Sampson, to begin developing this transatlantic story into a theatre piece that also explores its resonance to later histories of Black Caribbeans and the British Empire.
In the decade following the collapse of Reconstruction a new movement arose in the South comprising black farmers, sharecroppers, and agrarian workers—a Black Populist movement. Organized through the Colored Farmers Alliance, among other black-led labor groups, mutual aid associations, and black churches—and then expressed through the People’s Party, African Americans across the South created an independent political movement of their own which at times connected with an adjacent white Populist movement, and at other times diverged sharply from it. In this lecture we will explore this history. Led by Dr. Omar Ali, dean of Lloyd International Honors College, University of North Carolina Greensboro.
Join us as we gather back to campus in style! Calling all poets, musicians, artists, singers and rappers — the mic is waiting for you! Enjoy live music, the open mic, and more. This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by AADS as a kickoff to a year … Continued
This event fosters dialogue between local educators at the college and high school level and three Black men in different stages of their careers, resulting in a range of perspectives.
Local Greensboro artist and educator Alex Figueroa leads a workshop and community paint session in the AADS suite. Be sure to check out Alex’s AADS mural located outside Curry 341!
SPA 317 FOUNDATIONS OF HISPANIC CULTURES
Speakers’ Series
Liminal Spaces of the Hispanic World presents:
Equatorial Guinea:
Central Africa and the Making of World History
A presentation by Dr. Omar Ali
Dr. Ali is dean of UNCG’s International Honor’s College and a historian of the global African Diaspora. He explores how Africans and people of African descent have shaped the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Indian Ocean worlds.
Sponsored by the Department of LLC, AADS, and Lloyd International Honors College
