A series of lectures, events and presentations across Jamaica, Kenya, Cuba and Ghana — guided by one question: how do we build communities that hold both contradiction and solidarity?
We will visit universities, high schools, and primary schools across Kenya, featuring writers, scholars, and activists from Trinidad, Colombia, Gambia, Jamaica, and Kenya, among others.
A week-long series built around visiting Afro-Cuban writers, scholars and artists in residence, building discussions across campus.
Maya Angelou's memoir of decolonizing Ghana in the 1960s, read across the global Black network.
Autonomous events held across partner universities in the same week or month, sharing one core message of compassionate alliance.
Maroon communities in Jamaica, Harlem, the W.E.B. Du Bois Center in Accra, enslavement sites in Ghana and Nigeria, and the NMAAHC in Washington, D.C.
Institutionalizing a group-taught course with rotating faculty, writers, historians and activists from diverse backgrounds.
