• Urgent Issues Forum/Foro Urgente: The Assassination of Berta Cáceres and the Future of Indigenous and Afrodescendant Environmental and Land Rights in Honduras

    Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room

    On March 2, 2016, award-winning Lenca environmental and indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres was assassinated in her home in Honduras. She had received multiple threats from military and paramilitary groups linked to the mining and dams interests that she opposed. Gustavo Castro, a Mexican activist who was in Berta's home and was injured in the […]

  • Black Feminism, The Carceral State, and Abolition

    Royce 314

    A Book Talk by Sarah Haley with responses by Mariame Kaba and Dayo Gore Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials, Sarah Haley’s No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity illuminates black women’s experiences of imprisonment in the South to uncover how gendered regimes of […]

  • Chinyere Oparah

    Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room

    Birth Matters: Research Justice and Black Life African American women are 3 to 4 times as likely as white women to die of childbirth related causes, our infants are twice as likely not to survive their first year. "Birthing while black" is a site of struggle, which for too many leads to disabling, trauma or […]