Black culture week

It's that time of year. Black Culture Week is here. Black Culture Week has been celebrated at the University of Virginia for 45 years. Each year the Black Student Alliance holds events to acknowledge and celebrate black culture. We hope you are able to attend the events. They are sure to be great.

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food migration

The Food Migration, an annual event that showcases food and the history of foods from across the African Diaspora. ​

An Evening with Akosua Adoma Owsusu

A presentation by Akosua Adoma Owusu, who is a University alum, one of Art Forum's Top Ten Artists, Huffington Post's 30 Contemporary Artists under 40, and a 2013 MacDowell Colony Fellow and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow. She will present some of her cinematic work, and discuss "triple consciousness" - an expansion on Du Bois' concept of double consciousness that takes into account the African immigrant experience. ​

Adolph reed on race, Class Politics in obama's america

 Our keynote speaker, Professor Adolph Reed of the University of Pennsylvania, discussing the crossroads between race and class with specific respect to the ten-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. ​

SAMPLE of our guests for the poetry slam GOOD CLEAR SOUND: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otNa6QL9RP4