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Opening Reception: Textile Trade Ascendancies: Nigeria, UK, China

Who Owns The Oil?

Round table: African Artists Visualizing Africa

Children's Workshop,<i>Chameleon Street</i> film screening, and Q & A w/the artist<br><i>The Crown: Contemporary Construction of Self in America</i>

Black Feminist Think Tank: A Symposium

Opening Reception<br><i>The Crown: Contemporary Construction of Self in America</i><br>Photographs

<i>The Crown: Contemporary Construction of Self in America</i><br>Photographs

Taking Back the X, Bringing Back the Love

A LOVE SUPREME at 50: John Coltrane, Malcolm X, and the Sounds of '65”

Songs of Kwezhi

Africa Workshop

Chris Tounsel and Pedro Monaville

MLK Event: Film Screening

MLK Event: James Chaffers

MLK Event: Ta-Nehisi Coates

MLK Event: Martha Jones

Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim Opara

Child of the Dream: Living a Healthy Life after U-M

MLK Event: Heidi Morse

CITIES DIVIDED: THE PERSISTENCE OF SEGREGATION

Diaporic Dialogues

Africa Workshop

Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration

Africa Workshop

Panel featuring Gillian Berchowitz

Africa Workshop

Lecture by Isabel Hofmeyr

Zora Neale Hurston Lecture with Alice Walker

A Reading in Honor of Lorna Goodison's Retirement

Conversation with Lorna Goodison

In Honor of Lorna Goodison's Retirement: Edward Baugh & Jahan Ramazani In Conversation

DAAS Student-Faculty Open House

Looking Back, Looking Forward: A Dialogue on Ferguson

Diasporic Dialogues

Beyond Ebola Roundtable

Diasporic Dialogues

Africa Workshop with Jean Allman

African Studies Center Reception

Educator's Workshop on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the Teaching of her Works

GalleryDAAS Artist Talk: William Adjété Wilson

African Culture: A Royal Perspective

Diasporic Dialogues with the POA

Africa Workshop with Rita Abrahamsen

Michigan Journal of Race & Law and the Michigan Law Program in Race, Law & History

GalleryDAAS Reception for William Adjété Wilson

And Endlessly, I Create Myself: William-Adjété Wilson and The Black Ocean

The Role of a Queen Mother in Asante Culture

DAAS Welcome Reception

DAAS Graduation

Film Screening: Filming the Future of Detroit

Film Screening: Filming the Future of Detroit

DAAS Diasporic Dialogues: Rebecca Scott

Digital Medias, New Cinemas, and the Global South

Africa Workshop: Clapperton Mavhungu

In Search of A Better World

GalleryDAAS: Ed West Artist Talk

Diasporic Dialogues: Aliyah Khan

Theme Semester Lecture Series: Ship Sister to Mannish Woman: Queer Indo-Caribbean Biomythographies

Africa Workshop: Zanele Muholi

GalleryDAAS: Photographs by Ed West

Zora Neale Hurston Lecture: Sharon Holland

Jasmine Johnson Dance lecture

Living Writers Series: Lorna Goodison

Diasporic Dialogues: Matthew Smith

Africa Workshop: Magali Compan-Banard

African American Workshop: Christopher Parker

African American Workshop: Martha Biondi

Diasporic Dialogues: Reighan Gillam

Africa Workshop: Ciraj Rassool

Africa Workshop: Sylvie Kande

Caribbean Dialogues: Fernando Arenas

Africa Workshop: Sarah Charlton

12 Years a Slave Roundtable Film Discussion

Scott Kurashige DAAS Talk

Caribbean Dialogues: “How We Came to Love Kingston"

DAAS Student-Faculty Bingo

Poet Robert Hayden: A Centennial Conference

Robert Hayden and the Art of Poetry

DAAS Living Poets Series: Melba Joyce Boyd

“American Revolutionary” film screening

Detroit: Movement City Symposium

Film on Angola by Marissa Moorman (History-Indiana University)

African American Workshop: Chinua Thelwell

Africa Workshop: Marissa Moorman

African Social Research Initiative (ASRI) Biannual Conference

Africa Workshop: Aimé Césaire 100th Birthday Symposium

Community Engaged Learning Symposium

Charles Long dialogue with Paul Johnson

Africa Workshop: Jane Guyer

GalleryDAAS Opening Reception: Mary Sibande

“Faubourg Treme” documentary

GalleryDAAS Brown Bag: Mary Sibande

Transforming Violence and Conflict into Hope and Innovation

Matthew Vernon Talk

Thomas DeFrantz talk

Africa Workshop: Morton Jerven

Welcome Reception

Conference: Conflict, Legitimacy and Authoritarian Rule

Race Card Project Pop-Up Exhibit is back!

Africa Workshop: Fassil Demissie

A Political History of Heroin Addiction: Race, Crime and the Fractured Liberalism of Methadone Maintenance and Harm Reduction in New York City, 1963-1973

Africa Workshop: Didier Peclard

Duke Ellington's orchestral suite Black, Brown, and Beige

Race, Democracy and Social Control:A Grounded Theory of Racial Justice

Keeping the past in lively memory: On King, Black Studies, and Trauma

Sakina Hughes Gives Culinary Talk

National Book Award Winner Nikky Finney Poetry Reading

National Book Award Winner Nikky Finney Poetry Round Table

Africa Workshop: Nicolas Van De Walle

Africa Workshop: What is African Art?

Florynce 'Flo' Kennedy and Black Feminist Radicalism

Toni Tipton-Martin, "The Jemima Code: A Gallery of Great Cooks Share Their Secrets"

Earth, Sky, Water, Fire: Stories of the Americas

The Making of the Dream: MLK, Detroit, and U-M

Africa Workshop - Ken Harrow

The Roundtable - IndiVisible: African Native American Lives in the Americas

The Exhibit: IndiVisible: African Native American Lives in the Americas

The Chairman and the Lions

African Print Cultures workshop

African Print Cultures workshop

Africa Workshop: “The Spell that Fails Lacks an Essential Term: on the Nature of Curative Intent in Poetry” w/ Adeleke Adeeko

DAAS Open House for Students

Jamaica Forum for Lesbians All-Sexuals and Gays

All in the Family: Beverly Buchanan Art Reception & Exhibit

Beverly Buchanan Art Exhibit

Africa Workshop with Ebenezer Obadare

Proclaiming Emancipation: The Conference

Presidential Debate Viewing Party

"Hometown Security" with Majora Carter

African American Studies Workshop with Erica Edwards

Proclaiming Emancipation: The Exhibit

DAAS Community Forum

Africa Workshop with Rachel Riedl

African American Studies Workshop: “New Directions in African American Studies: Gender, Race and Sexuality”

"The Prophecy of James Baldwin” with Professor David Leeming

“James Baldwin: From Another Place” Film Screening

Africa Workshop with Ronald Labonté

Malick Ghachem Job Talk

Liberation Film Series: Prof. Stephen Ward

DAAS Welcome Reception

U-M Commencement and Black Celebratory

DAAS Commencement Ceremony

DAAS Faculty Brown Bag: Tanisha Ford

Women Visualizing Africa Film Series: La femme invisible (The Invisible Woman) and Calypso at Dirty Jim’s

African American and African Diaspora Workshop presents "Black Radicalism"

DAAS Faculty Brown Bags

African Musics Roundtable: Music in Sub-Saharan Africa Today

African American and the African Diaspora Workshop with Elizabeth Cole

Africa Workshop with Peter Alegi,"FIFAnomics and South African Nationalism:

Africa Workshop with John Ryle “Two Sudans: Will Separation work?”

DAAS Faculty Brown Bag: Prof. Karyn Lacy

Zora Neale Hurston “Pearl Primus: Dancing Democracy, Dancing Freedom (1943-1953)"

"Who's in Charge?: Deconstructing Black Leadership in America"

Woman Visualizing Africa Film Series: Cuba: An African Odyssey

"Property and Political Order: Land Rights and the Structure of Politics." Africa Workshop with Cathy Boone

“Teach Trane?” A Music Dialogue with Julius Scott

DAAS Faculty Brown Bag: Jessica Welburn

Woman Visualizing Africa Film Series: The Witches of Gambaga

South Sudan: Nationhood and the Challenges Ahead Round Table

DAAS Valentine's Day

Africa Workshop with Katarzyna Pieprzak

Poetry reading and discussion on writing with Audrey Petty

“Revisioning the Life of Coretta Scott King”

African American Workshop: "For Such a Time as This": New Testaments on the Black Atlantic Paradigm”

“Birders of a Feather: Stories of People, Birds, and Other People in Africa”

Women Visualizing Africa Film Series: Les enfants du blanc (Children of the White Man)

Women Visualizing Africa Film Series: Notre étrangère

The Author’s Forum Presents:The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story

DAAS Faculty Brown Bag: Patricia Coleman Burns

University of Michigan’s MLK Children and Youth Program

Annual MLK Lecture on Environmental Justice:“Building on Past Pillars to a New Generation of Activism”

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Symposium (no classes)

Keynote Memorial Lecture

"Dr. King's Vision for Economic Justice: Focus on Detroit"

Women Visualizing Africa Film Series: Paris mon Paradis

DAAS Faculty Brown Bags: Prof. Magdalena Zaborowska

Africa Workshop: Severine Rugumamu

DAAS Women's Film Series:Daughters of the Dust

Monday Movies: The Spook Who Sat By the Door

Monday Movies: Stormy Weather

Gallery DAAS- Last Day for Fall 2011

DAAS Faculty Brown Bag: Professor Scott Ellsworth

DAAS Open House

Africa Workshop: Sawyer Seminar Workshop

A Conversation with Callaloo Publisher Charles Rowell

DAAS Women's Film Series: Beloved

Africa Workshop: Kwesi Yankah

Lemuel A. Johnson Center Opening Robin Means Coleman Book Signing Monday Movies: Blacula

Black Alumni Reception

Living Poets: Roundtable Discussion

Black Alumni Speed Networking with Students (Reception)

African American Studies Workshop: Penny Von Eschen

Monday Movies: Brian's Song

DAAS Faculty Brown Bag: Julius Scott

Africa Workshop: Mary Moran

Monday Movies: Sounder

Prof. James A. Chaffers - SPACESPIRIT

DAAS Women's Film Series: Sankoka

DAAS Community Forum

African American Studies Workshop: Matthew Countryman

Monday Movies: Imitation of Life

“ECO Girls Presents a GoGirl Dance Party” at Trotter for Shoots (4th-6th grade group of ECO Girls)

“ECO Girls Presents a GoGirl Dance Party” at Trotter for Roots (2nd-3rd grade group of ECO Girls)

DAAS Faculty Brown Bags: Vincent Hutchings

DAAS Welcome Reception

Africa Workshop: James Ferguson

Monday Movies: Shaft

DAAS Celebration at Detroit Center

Graduation Photos 2016