Why History Matters: Why Black Women’s Lives Matter
2018-02-08 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | UCLA Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum, 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles , 90024, United States
WHY HISTORY MATTERS
Why Black Women’s Lives and Histories Matter

Thursday, February 8, 2018
7:00 p.m.
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Lenart Auditorium
Self-pay parking available in Structure 4

Funmilola Fagbamila
Adjunct Professor, Department of Pan-African Studies
California State University, Los Angeles
2017 Activist-in-Residence with the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin
Dion Fountaine Raymond, J.D.
Discrimination Prevention Officer and Coordinator
UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Brenda Stevenson
Professor and Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History
UCLA Department of History
moderated by
Marcus Anthony Hunter
Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences
Associate Professor and Chair
UCLA Department of African American Studies

Support for Black Reparations in the Early 21st Century
2018-02-12 12:00 - 14:00 | Black Forum 153, UCLA Haines Hall, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Support for Black Reparations in the Early 21st Century
Talk by Michael Dawson
John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College
The University of Chicago

Monday, February 12, 2018
12 p.m.–2 p.m.
Black Forum 153, UCLA Haines Hall
Lunch will be provided.

Michael C. Dawson is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. He has also taught at the University of Michigan and Harvard University. Dawson received his BA with High Honors from Berkeley in 1982 and doctorate degree from Harvard University in 1986. Professor Dawson was co-principal investigator of the 1988 National Black Election Study and was principal investigator with Ronald Brown of the 1993-1994 National Black Politics Study.
His research interests have included the development of quantitative models of African American political behavior, identity, and public opinion, the political effects of urban poverty, and African American political ideology. This work also includes delineating the differences in African American public opinion from those of white Americans. More recently he has combined his quantitative work with work in political theory.
His previous two books, Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics (Princeton 1994) and Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies(Chicago 2001), won multiple awards, including Black Visionswinning the prestigious Ralph Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association. Dawson has also published numerous journal articles, book chapters and opinion pieces. Dawson’s strong interest in the impact of the information technology revolution on society and politics, as well as his research on race are both fueled in part from his time spent as an activist while studying and working in Silicon Valley for several years. Dawson is currently finishing an edited volume, Fragmented Rainbow, on race and civil society in the United States as well as a solo volume, Black Politics in the Early 21st Century.
He is with Lawrence Bobo, the founding co-editor of the journal The Du Bois Review (Cambridge University Press), as well as being the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago. Dawson has also served as the Chair of the Political Science Department of the University of Chicago. Among other duties Dawson was elected to the Board of the Social Science Research Council and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006. Dawson has been interviewed extensively by the print and broadcast media including the Washington Post, The Economist Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, NPR, CNN, BET, and ABC News. Dawson is also a regular commentator at TheRoot.com.
Selected Publications:

Blacks In and Out of the Left: Past, Present, and Future (Harvard University Press, 2013).
Not in Our Lifetimes: The Future of Black Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2011).
Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Ideologies (University of Chicago Press, 2001).
Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics(Princeton University Press, 1994).

At the Limits of Urban Theory: Racial Banishment in the Contemporary City
2018-02-13 18:30 - 20:00 | Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom
Hosted by LSE Cities
SHEIKH ZAYED THEATRE, NEW ACADEMIC BUILDING
In cities around the world, especially in the United States, processes of socio-spatial restructuring continue to unfold. Often understood as neoliberal urbanism and often identified through concepts such as gentrification, these processes entail the displacement of subaltern classes to the far edges of urban life. In this talk, Ananya Roy argues that it is necessary to analyse such transformations through a theorisation of racial capitalism.
In particular, she draws on research conducted by scholars and social movements in Los Angeles to delineate processes of racial banishment. In doing so, Roy argues that the standard conceptual repertoire of urban studies is ill-equipped to study such processes. In particular, influential explanations that invoke neoliberalisation often miss the long histories of dispossession and disposability that are being remade in the contemporary city. Put another way, she makes the case for how urban studies must contend with legacies of white liberalism and the elision of the race question. Relying on both postcolonial theory and the black radical tradition, Roy demonstrates that what is at stake is not only a more robust analysis of urbanism but also attention to the various forms of movement and mobilisation that are challenging racial banishment.
Ananya Roy (@ananyaUCLA) is Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Geography and inaugural Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin. She holds The Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy.

Ricky Burdett (@BURDETTR) is Professor of Urban Studies at the LSE and Director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age Programme. He was curator of the Conflicts of an Urban Age exhibition at the 2016 International Architecture Biennale in Venice and contributed to the United Nations Habitat III conference on sustainable urbanisation in Quito.
LSE Cities (@LSECities) is an international centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science that carries out research, graduate and executive education and outreach activities in London and abroad. Its mission is to study how people and cities interact in a rapidly urbanising world, focussing on how the design of cities impacts on society, culture and the environment.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEAnanyaRoy
This event is free and open to all. However, a ticket is required, only one ticket per person can be requested.

This event will be webcast live on the LSE website on LSE LIVE.

From the NFL to the Crenshaw Line: Black Workers Matter
2018-02-14 12:10 - 13:30 | UCLA School of Law, Room 1347, 385 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles , CA, 90095, United States
Presented by the Critical Race Studies Program and the Black Law Students Association
Panelists:
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, Founder and Director, Los Angeles Black Worker Center
Delvin Turner, UCLA Law Class of 2019
Noah D. Zatz, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Moderator:
Cheryl I. Harris, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; Faculty Director, Critical Race Studies Program, UCLA School of Law
Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP.

Plans for Freedom: Sanctuary, Abolition, and Reconstruction in the Age of Trumpism
2018-02-22 18:00 - 20:00 | William Barton Rogers Building, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139
Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Building 7, 429
77 MASSACHUSETTS AVE, Cambridge, MA 02139

MIT Department of Architecture / Spring 2018 Lecture Series
Organized with MIT Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS)
The Trump presidency has brought to sharp light the enduring racial inequalities through which liberal democracy is constituted and lived. In this talk, Ananya Roy examines imaginations and practices of resistance, from sanctuary cities to professional refusal, against regimes of white nationalism. But she also places the present historical conjuncture in the broader history of racial capitalism and return to the “freedom dreams” of black reconstruction and the project of abolitionism. Roy argues that our disciplines and professions have a role to play in such plans of freedom.

Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography and founding Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at the University of California, Los Angeles where she holds the Renee and Meyer Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy. Previously she was on the faculty at the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley. Ananya’s research and scholarship has a determined focus on poverty and inequality and lies in four domains: how the urban poor in cities from Kolkata to Chicago face and fight eviction, foreclosure, and displacement; how global financialization, working in varied realms from microfinance to real-estate speculation, creates new markets in debt and risk; how the efforts to manage and govern the problem of poverty reveal the contradictions and limits of liberal democracy; how new programs of welfare and human development are being demanded and made in the global South. Ananya is the author of several books including Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development (Routledge, 2010), which received the Paul Davidoff book award from ACSP. Her most recent book is Encountering Poverty: Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World (UC Press, 2016). During the last year, Ananya’s public scholarship has challenged white supremacy and white power. From the short video, “3 Truths About Trumpism,” to the organization of a nationwide day of Teach.Organize.Resist, her work mobilizes the power of knowledge to divest from whiteness.

Protecting Renters: Discussions of Rent Control, Stabilization, and Evictions
2018-02-26 12:30 - 14:00 | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2343, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
California’s housing crisis is hitting renters hard. With rents fast increasing in Los Angeles, many people are scared. Whether they fear rent increases that push housing costs out of reach or being scared that improvements to the building mean a rent increase is imminent, the rental market can be scary. California is known for strong tenant protections, but existing state laws like the Ellis Act (evicting tenants to convert buildings to ownership) or Costa-Hawkins Act (not allowing new construction to be under rent control) weakens these tenant protections. What’s the appetite for reforming these laws? How are they currently affecting residents in Los Angeles? What can be done to put renters in Los Angeles on a more stable foundation?
Speakers:
Joan Ling, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Tony Samara, Urban Habitat
Doug Smith, Public Counsel
Moderator:
Mike Lens, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Lunch will be provided.
Livestream available here.

The Intersection: Woke Black Folk
2018-03-02 18:00 - 22:00 | Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center, 4305 Degnan Boulevard #101, Los Angeles, CA, 90008, United States
26th Annual Pan African Film Festival

Featured Theater Event
Playwright, Poet, Scholar and Activist FUNMILOLA FAGBAMILA performs for ONE NIGHT ONLY her one-woman, hip hop, spoken word theater piece:
THE INTERSECTION: WOKE BLACK FOLK
The Intersection: Woke Black Folk explores and deconstructs black political identity, foregrounding the forms of ideological conflict and difference that exist within what can be understood to be black radicalism. It calls into question the coherence and singularity of the political category, “woke black folk,” demonstrating the deep differences and divides within black communities and within black mobilization.

View the trailer here.

Friday, March 2nd, 2018
DOORS: 6PM
SHOW: 7PM
at the Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center | Leimert Park
4305 Degnan Blvd #101, Los Angeles, CA 90008
“This is Baduizm.”
-Erykah Badu
“This work is timely, brilliant and necessary.”
-Angela Davis
General admission $20
18 & Under $15
Tickets can be purchased here.
Dinner / refreshments will be provided!

Economic Policy and the Civil Rights Movement: How Coretta Scott King Helped Change Federal Reserve Policy
2018-03-05 12:00 - 13:30 | UCLA Bunche Hall, Room 6339, 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy presents…
“Economic Policy and the Civil Rights Movement: How Coretta Scott King Helped Change Federal Reserve Policy Workshop” featuring David Stein.

A Conversation with Chelsea Manning
2018-03-05 18:30 - 20:30 | UCLA Royce Hall, 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles , CA, 90095, United States
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs presents
A Conversation with Chelsea Manning
Monday, March 5, 2018
6:30 p.m. @ Royce Hall
$35: General Admission
$15: UCLA Faculty/Staff
Free to current UCLA students with ID

As an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense, Chelsea Manning disclosed classified documents to WikiLeaks that revealed human rights abuses and corruption connected to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in a military prison, but released in 2017 after President Obama commuted her sentence. While in prison, Manning publicly identified as a trans woman and asserted her right to medical therapy. Now an advocate for government transparency and queer and transgender rights, Manning will speak about topics including resistance in the age of artificial intelligence; activism and protest; transgender issues; and the intersection of technology and people’s lives.
Part of the Meyer and Renee Luskin Lecture Series
luskin.ucla.edu

Contact Zone: UCLA Activists-in-Residence
2018-03-12 11:00 - 13:00 | UCLA Young Research Library, 11360 Main Conference Room, 280 Charles E. Young Drive North, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Contact Zones are social spaces of engagement. Join us for this speaker series from the Library Diversity Committee that will bring together community leaders and experts to help navigate issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Learn from the experiences and projects of UCLA’s Activists-in-Residence. Hear their tips and advice on how to create a more diverse and inclusive environment at UCLA.

Manuel Criollo is the Activist-In-Residence at the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin and has served as lead organizer on a wide range of local, regional and statewide campaigns, including solidarity work with social movements in Chiapas, Mexico, El Salvador and Venezuela. He received his BA from University of California, Santa Barbara, where he organized youth and students against anti-immigrant and anti-affirmative action ballot initiatives in California.

Yvonne Yen Liu
Yvonne Yen Liu is the Activist-in-Residence at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the co-founder and research director of Solidarity Research Center, a worker self-directed nonprofit that cultivates solidarity economies through data science, story-based strategy, and direct action. She is based in Los Angeles, California, where the sun smiles on her every day. She has a BA in cultural anthropology from Columbia University and a MA degree in sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center, where she pursued a PhD.
RSVP preferred. This is a free event open to all audiences. Questions: diversity@library.ucla.edu
Downloadable event flyer.

Organize, Walkout, and Transform
2018-03-17 10:00 - 14:00 | YouthSource Center, 1006 E. 28th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90011, United States
50 Years of Youth-led Struggle for Educational Justice
Join youThink for dialogue, art, & action commemorating the 50th anniversary of the L.A. Walkouts in East & South Los Angeles Walkouts. FREE! Transportation and food will be provided.
If under 18 years of age, please fill out a permission form by clicking here and either text photo to (310) 721-0037, email scan/photo to youthink.youth@gmail.com, or fax scan/photo of form to (323) 761-8990

Just Culture
2018-03-25 11:00 - 17:00 | UCLA Wilson Plaza, 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
Underground Scholars Initiative would like to cordially invite you to be a part of an upcoming concert and community gathering—”Just Culture.” The purpose of the event is to raise awareness for formerly incarcerated students. On the day of the event, they aim to create a space for people of color and/or those impacted by mass incarceration to enjoy elements of their culture in an elite academic institution, while addressing systemic barriers faced in their communities. Community cultural elements will be brought to the campus in an effort to bring an underrepresented culture to UCLA. Underground Scholars Initiative is looking to showcase performances and art by local artists that speak of the struggles they face as members of historically marginalized populations.
Downloadable Flyer

The Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin is happy to be a co-sponsor of this event.

Underground Scholars Initiative is a student group at UCLA that supports all current and prospective students impacted by mass incarceration, imprisonment, and involuntary detainment of any kind. They aim to create a pathway for formerly incarcerated and system impacted individuals into higher education.

Santa Ana Community Development in Action
2018-04-20 08:00 - 17:00 | Delhi Center, 505 E Central Ave, Santa Ana, CA, 92707, United States
You are invited to Santa Ana’s first…
Thrive Conference
“Santa Ana Community Development in Action”
Learn local and national community-based models & obtain tools for community-driven development.
Keynote speakers: Ananya Roy and America Bracho
Sessions include:

Community Land Trusts
Alternative Economies
Transportation Oriented Development
Urban Agriculture
Tools for Organizing
Role of Government

Free event, community members, residents and practitioners welcome.
Friday, April 20th, 2018 | 8–5 p.m. at the Delhi Center in Santa Ana 505 E Central Ave.
REGISTER HERE
Share with your friends through this Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/931043660391422/
Or contact them for more information:
thrivesantaana@gmail.com

Black, Brown, and Powerful: Freedom Dreams in Unequal Cities
2018-04-26 - 2018-04-27 | Los Angeles Trade Technical College, 400 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, United States
SAVE THE DATE:
Los Angeles Trade Technical College, April 26–April 27, 2018
In Los Angeles and elsewhere, black and brown communities face multiple forms of banishment and exploitation. At this event, convened by the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin, we share and discuss research and activism to analyze structures of urban displacement, racialized policing, criminal justice debt, forced labor, and the mass supervision and control of youth. But unequal cities are also where freedom dreams are created and enacted. Located in, and thinking from South Los Angeles, we shine a light on organizing frameworks and resistance strategies that challenge exclusion and refuse subordination.
We invite scholars, students, activists, artists, community-based and nonprofit organizations, foundations, policymakers and public officials, and all those interested in social justice work, to join us. Information on registration and participation will be available in early April.

Thursday 4/26
5–8 p.m.
LATTC South Campus Tent
FROM BANISHMENT TO FREEDOM
A collection of talks outlining the main dimensions of inequality in Los Angeles and highlighting key visions and practices for building power.
Special Performance: Lockdown Unplugged

Friday 4/27
8:30 a.m.-3 pm
LATTC Aspen Hall
LATTC South Campus Tent
Research and Activism Workshops:
Freedom is a Place: Land, Rent, and Housing
Pay for Freedom, Work for Free: Economic Extraction in Criminal Justice
Disentangling the Web of the Juvenile Justice System
Special Performance: Woke Black Folk
Joint Convening of Workshops
Printable flyer

Legislative Theater for Racial Justice
2018-05-18 18:00 - 20:00 | UCLA Northwest Campus Auditorium, 350 De Neve Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Join us on May 18, 2018 at the UCLA Northwest Campus Auditorium at 6 p.m. to engage in a transformative Legislative Theater event bringing together community, campus and incarcerated participants to envision and propose solutions to racialized mass incarceration. Legislative Theater is a technique in which public dialogue, debate and performance are used to develop legislative solutions to problems identified by community participants. Emerging from Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed, this methodology was used to passed 12 laws during his tenure as a vereador (legislator) in Brazil.
Absolutely no experience in the arts, theater or legislative process is necessary to participate.
During a Legislative Theater event, community participants stage a play demonstrating an oppression they face. Participants in the audience —“spect-actors”— are invited into the scene to rehearse strategies for transformation. Between scenes, participants draft ideas for new laws aimed at ending that oppression. All of these ideas are collected and given to a lawyer and legislator on site who work together to organize the ideas into related groups. As the group builds consensus, with the council of the lawyer and legislator, participants debate the proposed laws until an agreement is reached on a new law the community agrees to champion. The legislator then takes the legislative proposal to their governing body for a vote in hopes of implementation.

Passing Through Movie Screening - LA Poverty Department
2018-08-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Skid Row History Museum & Archive, 250 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Skid Row Musuem
“Passing Through” – Directed by Leslie Dektor and produced by Tom MacMaster
Q&A with Manuel Compito, Leslie Dektor and Tom MacMaster and others.
This beautiful movie is back because of popular demand: COME SEE IT IF YOU HAVEN’T HAD THE CHANCE YET!
Los Angeles Poverty Department’s Movie Nights at the Museum:
Free movie screenings, free popcorn, free coffee & free conversation. Every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month, we screen movies about issues that are important to our Skid Row and downtown community at the #skidrowmuseum.
Passing Through focuses on an art studio that was initially launched in Los Angeles’s Skid Row that, for years, offered the disenfranchised an opportunity to discover their creative voice and the dispossessed a sense of belonging. For decades, the poor and marginalized have been herded and confined to Skid Row but many found refuge, comfort and even a path to a new life there.
Leslie Dektor, a 2-time winner and 13-time nominee of the DGA Director of the Year Award, was inspired to embark upon Passing Through in part due to the research he’d been doing for a film on the Great Depression. Dektor saw parallels between the subjects in those photos and the poor and dispossessed in Los Angeles while also recognizing the power of art to bring light and hope to the darkest times.
Proceeds from Passing Through will be donated to the Art Works Continuum as well as other organizations that serve the unhoused population and support the arts in Los Angeles.
Please visit our website for more information: https://www.passingthroughfilm.com/
Pre-Order available on iTunes : https://apple.co/2F9X4ee
Manuel Compito aka OG Man is a Homeless Advocate and Community Organizer, an author and highly skilled and gifted Fine Artist. He is a husband, father and grandfather. He has been featured in several documentaries including “Lost Angels,” “Humble Beauty,” and “Passing Through” as well as numerous other documentaries available on YouTube which feature his works.
Manuel learned to draw as a child from his brother. He would later spend a considerable amount of time cultivating his talents during a lengthy period of incarceration. Even today, Manuel’s artwork derives from sketches based on his visual life experiences. Art serves as the nexus of his ideas, projects, programs and writings. “Art is my passion. Being of Service is my calling. Skid Row is ‘Ground Zero’ when it comes to community organizing. It’s the right place and the right time for those who want to make a difference.” says Manuel Compito.
This mindset has been the motivating force which led to Manuel’s creation of the award-winning Skid Row 3on3 Streetball League, grass-roots organizations such OG’s N Service Association, Skid Row Brigade, Operation Facelift-SkidRow, Skid Row Artist Collective aka Hidden Treasures and “Peace- N-Hood,” a neo-novel and coloring book for the urban area.

Los Angeles Poverty Department’s Movie Nights at the Museum
2018-08-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Skid Row History Museum & Archive, 250 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Screening: Brooklyn Castle (2012) 101 min., Directed By Katie Dellamaggiore
Produced by Colin Davis, Nelson Dellamaggiore, Brian Schulz, and Katie Dellamaggiore

Free movie screenings, free popcorn, free coffee & free conversation. Every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month, we screen movies about issues that are important to our Skid Row and downtown community at the #skidrowmuseum.

Synopsis: Amidst financial crises and unprecedented public school budget cuts, Brooklyn Castle takes an intimate look at the challenges and triumphs facing members of a junior high school’s champion chess team.

Location: Skid Row History Museum and Archive, 250 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Black Convocation 2018
2018-10-09 17:30 - 20:00 | UCLA Carnesale Commons – Palisades Room, 251 Charles E Young Drive West, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The Black Convocation is an annual event that welcomes new and returning students to the UCLA campus and makes them aware of the different organizations, departments, and resources available to serve them. It is an evening full of Bruin pride, providing encouragement, anecdotes about the past, and a glimpse of the future from UCLA faculty, staff, and alumni dedicated to supporting all students. The event is free and open to the public.
RSVP at https://uclablackconvocation2018.eventbrite.com.
To download a printable version of the flyer (8.5×11), click here!
The 2018 Black Convocation at UCLA was organized by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, UCLA Department of African American Studies, UCLA Black Alumni Association, Office of Residential Life (ORL), Afrikan Student Union (ASU), UCLA Career Center, UCLA Black Graduate Student Association (BGSA), Academic Advancement Program (AAP), UCLA Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Connecting Communities to UCLA (CCU), UCLA Community Programs Office & UCLA Student Affairs – Enrollment Management.

Save the Date - Pro-Bono Expert Witnessing: A Role for Academics in Asylum Cases
2020-05-20 11:00 - 12:30 | CA
Pro-Bono Expert Witnessing: A Role for Academics in Asylum Cases
Featuring Leisy Abrego (UCLA), Cecilia Menjívar (UCLA), Steven Osuna (CSULB), and Alex Sanchez (Homies Unidos)”
Details coming soon.
