Celebration to Feature Prominent Scholars, Performers Jan 20-26 LEWISBURG, Pa. — Bucknell University’s 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Week will bring scholars and activists to…

Bucknell’s education department will present Richard Rothstein, the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, for…

The Bucknell community has been deeply affected by the loss of Carmen Gillespie, professor of English and director of the Griot Center for the Study…

Bucknell University’s 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Week will bring scholars and activists to campus Jan. 20-26 for performances, lectures and discussions that reflect upon…

American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator Nikki Giovanni will present a free, public lecture entitled Grit, Grace and Glow as part of the Griot…

Darrick Hamilton, executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University, will present a free, public…

The Griot Institute for the Study of Black Lives and Cultures celebrates the beginning of the new academic year and welcomes first-year students and the…

Bucknell University’s 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Week will feature five prominent scholars who will recall Dr. King’s legacy while discussing the “Facing Change” theme…

The Griot Institute for Africana Studies will celebrate the start of the new academic year for students, faculty and staff by holding its Opening Event on Saturday, Aug. 25 from 12 to 2 p.m. on Bucknell's science quad. The event is free and open to the public.

Bucknell University’s 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Week will feature five prominent scholars who will recall Dr. King’s legacy while discussing the "Continuous Struggle" theme during a week-long series of public events Jan. 21-27.

Christy S. Coleman, chief executive officer of the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Va., will present a free, public talk entitled “Reclaiming Black History…

Bucknell's Griot Institute for Africana Studies will present award winning author Edwidge Danticat for a free, public talk entitled "The Black Unfamiliar in the 21st Century: (Re)Writing the Black Immigrant Experience" on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. in the Elaine Langone Center's Forum.

Bucknell's Griot Institute for Africana Studies will present social entrepreneur DeShuna Spencer for a free, public talk entitled "The Black Unfamiliar in the 21st Century: Black Representation" on Wednesday, March 6 at 7 p.m. in the Great Room of Hildreth-Mirza Hall. The event is co-sponsored by the Career Development Center.

Bucknell’s Griot Institute for Africana Studies will present author Margo Natalie Crawford, a University of Pennsylvania professor of English who is a scholar of 20th…

Bucknell’s Griot Institute for Africana Studies will present Rochelle Spencer, a San Francisco Bay Area-based writer focused on AfroSurrealism, stories by and about people of color, and female empowerment, in a free, public talk entitled “The Black Unfamiliar in the Twenty-First Century: AfroSurrealism” on Wednesday, March 27 at 7 p.m. in the Great Room, Hildreth-Mirza Hall.

Carol Wayne White, Bucknell religious studies professor, will deliver a free, public talk entitled "Black Lives and Sacred Humanity" on Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. in the Great Room of the University's Hildreth-Mirza Hall. Her talk is part of the Bucknell Griot Institute Spring 2019 Lecture and Performance Series, "The Black Unfamiliar in the 21st Century," and co-sponsored by the University's Department of History.

The Griot Institute for Africana Studies, in partnership with Bucknell Library and Information Technology, will again host the Dancing Mind Challenge, inspired by Toni Morrison's essay "The Dancing Mind," in Bertrand Library on Saturday, Oct. 21. The essay advocates for disconnecting from the sometimes overwhelming electronic influences in our modern lives and this event will ask participants to commit to “unplug” for four or eight consecutive hours.

Bucknell University’s 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Week will feature five prominent scholars who will recall Dr. King’s legacy while providing “Critical Reflections on Current Struggles” during a week-long series of public events Jan. 15-21. All events are free and open to the public, although RSVP is required for luncheon discussions to griot@bucknell.edu.

Rebecca Moore, an emeritus professor of religious studies at San Diego State University, will discuss "The Erasure (and Re-Inscription) of African-Americans from the Jonestown Narrative" in the Gallery Theatre at the Elaine Langone Center on Wednesday, Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. Her free, public talk will be the initial event in the Griot Institute for Africana Studies' semester-long, interdisciplinary series "Erasure: Blackness and the Fight Against Invisibility." 

Percival Everett, a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California and author of nearly 30 books, will read from his novel, Erasure, and then lead conversation on Wednesday, Feb. 14, at 7 p.m. in the Gallery Theatre, Elaine Langone Center. His talk is co-sponsored by the English Department and made possible through the support of the University Lectureship Committee. It is part of the semester-long, interdisciplinary series "Erasure: Blackness and the Fight Against Invisibility," by the Griot Institute for Africana Studies.

Author and Cornell University professor C. Riley Snorton, who has been listed as one of "Ten Transgender People You Should Know" by Black Entertainment Television, will speak in the Griot Institute for Africana Studies' Spring Lecture & Performance Series "Erasure: Blackness and the Fight Against Invisibility" on Wednesday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. in the Gallery Theatre, Elaine Langone Center (ELC).  Snorton will discuss the ascendance of Christine Jorgensen, dubbed America's first transsexual celebrity, and violent racist suppression at home during the free, public lecture.

On Tuesday, Feb 27th, the film "A Band Called Death" will be screened in the Gallery Theater, ELC. The film was released in 2014, and in 2016, DEATH was inducted into the new African American History Museum at Smithsonian in Washington DC. Additionally, on Wednesday evening, Feb. 28th, Bobby and Dennis Hackney's talk will examine the accounts of being an all-Black Rock band of three blood brothers, David Hackney, Dennis Hackney, and Bobby Hackney calling themselves "DEATH" in Detroit in 1975 during the heyday of the Motown era, playing what was considered at the time "white Rock music."

Scott Ellsworth, an author and noted scholar on the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, will discuss "The 1921 Tulsa Riot and the Erasure of Black History" on Wednesday, March 7 at 7 p.m. in the Gallery Theatre, Elaine Langone Center. His free, public talk is part of the Griot Institute for Africana Studies' Spring Lecture and Performance Series on the theme of “Erasure: Blackness and the Fight Against Invisibility.”

The film "Let the Fire Burn" will be screened in the Campus Theatre on Tuesday, March 20, at 7 p.m., followed by a conversation with the film's director Jason Osder.  The event is part of the The Griot Institute for Africana Studies' Spring Lecture and Performance Series on the theme of “Erasure: Blackness and the Fight Against Invisibility.”

On Mar. 21, Ramona Africa will be talking about the need for people to stop looking to politicians and to this system, for solutions.  The event will take place in the Gallery Theater, Elaine Langone Center at 7 pm. The talk is will be titled MOVE and Black Erasure.