Join the BSU-UMD Social Justice Alliance, 2nd Lt. Richard Collins Foundation and The Mission Continues, to celebrate Lt. Richard Collins' birthday with a day of service at Strength 2 Love 2 Farm in Baltimore, MD.
You're invited to the annual Social Justice Fall Workshop hosted by the BSU-UMD Social Justice Alliance and 2nd Lt. Richard W. Collins III Foundation! The theme of this interactive workshop is "Cultivating a Multiracial Community Towards Healing and Justice."
The BSU/UMD SJA Fall Workshop will be held on Friday, October 25th, from 10:00am to 3:00pm, in The Robert H. Smith School of Business (Room 2202 - Second floor), located on UMD's campus at 7621 Mowatt Ln, College Park, MD 20742. Lunch will be provided for attendees. Please RSVP by Friday, October 18th.
In the early 1960s, Malcolm X famously criticized the philosophical and political bases of the African American “civil rights” movement, calling instead for a turn to what he called “the level of human rights” and redress through the United Nations rather than the U.S. federal government. This lecture seeks to understand the political and philosophical contradictions of Malcolm’s internationalism by placing its surprising mix of revolutionary liberalism and anti-imperialist nationalism in productive tension with earlier African American internationalisms, especially efforts at “worldmaking” through the United Nations. Recovering the important philosophical differences within oft-collapsed accounts of “black internationalism,” the lecture takes stock of the different philosophical justifications for engaging the politics of global governance by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Patterson. Taking seriously these distinctions as central to the careful study and reconstruction of black political thought, I consider the lessons that Malcolm’s trajectory portends for contemporary efforts to connect aims of global justice and peace to African American struggles for racial justice.
This event will be held in a hybrid format both in-person and online from 2:00-3:30pm ET on October 23, 2024.
University of Maryland's Bahá'í Chair for World Peace, the Department of African American and Africana Studies, the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, and The Anti-Black Racism Initiative co-sponsor a discussion featuring presentations by Professor Olufemi Taiwo (Cornell University) and Professor Jean-Michel Mabeko-Tali (Howard University). Professor Taiwo will explore "Against Decolonization: Africa's Place in the Global Circuit of Ideas," while Professor Mabeko-Tali will discuss "British Magna Carta vs. Mali Empire's Manden Kouroukan Fouga Charter: Comparing Historical Visions of Human Rights." The conversation will be moderated by Professor John E. Drabinski of the University of Maryland, College Park, and will conclude with a panel discussion and audience Q&A.
