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Promotional graphic for the Carceral State Project’s “Archives of Resistance” exhibit, featuring a purple flower created by Christopher Gray from prison wall paint chips and the handwritten word “HOPE.”

New GalleryDAAS Exhibition! On display Dec. 8–Jan. 30: “Archives of Resistance”

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Graduate Certificate Program Learn more about our two certificates offered to enrolled grad students at U-M, African Studies and African American and Diasporic Studies.

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GalleryDAAS Presents: Archives of Resistance: Visuals and Voices from Carceral State Project Research

10:00 AM
GalleryDAAS, G648 Haven Hall

Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture

Comparative Racial Politics in Latin America, Professor Ollie Johnson

4:30 PM
RLL Commons, room 4309 Modern Languages Building

The Movement Made Us All: Historical Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement and the Current Moment

David Dennis, Jr., (author, journalist, senior writer at Andscape and ESPN commentator) David Dennis, Sr., UM Law ’71 (founder and director of the Southern Initiative Algebra Project, CORE Southern Regional Director, 1962-65)

6:00 PM
Helmut Stern Auditorium Museum of Art

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