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<div> <div> <p> Black feminist scholars will examine the current socio-political and cultural moment in “Triangle Breathing: A Conversation with Hortense Spillers and Alexis Pauline Gumbs,” the final <a href="https://english.cornell.edu/zalaznick">Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series: At Home</a> virtual event of the fall. </p></div></div>
<p> <a href="https://www.darklaboratory.com/">Dark Laboratory</a>, a “humanities incubator” for digital storytelling with a special focus on Black and Indigenous voices, <a href="https://www.darklaboratory.com/podcast">launched its first podcast episode</a>, a crossover with the podcast “Get Free” by laboratory co-founder <a href="https://africana.cornell.edu/tao-leigh-goffe">Tao Leigh Goffe</a>, on Oct. 26.</p>
Join us at 7 p.m. Nov. 19 for the next event in this yearlong webinar series.
<p> New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday parents whose children are currently enrolled in all-remote classes will now have until Nov. 15 to opt back into in-person classes – a shift from the previous plan which allowed parents numerous opportunities to choose to enroll for in-person education.</p>
<p> A forensic team in Tulsa, Oklahoma has unearthed 11 coffins while searching for victims of the 1921 massacre in which hundreds of Black residents were killed.</p>
<p> A total of 122 readers, plus a number of Cornell musicians, paid tribute to Toni Morrison M.A. ’55 Oct. 8 during a marathon reading of “The Bluest Eye.”</p>
<div> <a href="https://sce.cornell.edu/travel">Cornell’s Adult University</a> (CAU) is hosting free and pay-to-view live online seminars open to the public this fall, beginning with <a href="https://sce.cornell.edu/travel/program/new-paltz">“The 2020 Presidential Election – an Online Seminar,”</a> Oct. 30 and 31 and Nov. 7.</div><div> <div> <p> Registration is open for all offerings at CAU, which is part of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. </p></div></div>
The lab will help people tell their stories to the world through technology.
Some sports films, both fictional and documentary, make important cultural statements, argues Samantha Sheppard in her new book.
The Racism in America series will resume in November with a focus on residential and educational segregation.
The Oct. 8 event is the fourth in the College of Arts & Sciences’ Arts Unplugged series, which brings artistic, scientific and creative works into the public sphere for discussion and inspiration.
<p> Faculty members planning this year’s <a href="https://as.cornell.edu/arts-unplugged">Cornell Celebrates Toni Morrison</a> series have spent considerable time discussing how to handle, for a general audience, the brutal language of racism and scenes of sexual violence in “The Bluest Eye.”</p>
The College is able to bestow these honors to outstanding faculty thanks to generous gifts from alumni, parents and friends.
The program’s goal was to help students navigate the new pandemic world by providing them with intellectual frameworks and tools.
The year-long series features faculty experts and journalist moderators exploring the far-reaching impacts of institutional racism.
The three-year fellowships are available to early-career scholars conducting leading-edge research in any of the College’s discipline areas.
<p> Presidential candidate Joe Biden has selected Senator Kamala Harris as running mate and vice-presidential candidate, the first black and South Asian woman to serve on the ticket as a candidate for vice president.</p><p></p>
The “Rural Black Lives” theme for 2020-21 will concentrate on the visibility of Black lives in rural central and western New York state.
<p dir="ltr"> <strong>Name and title:</strong></p><p dir="ltr"> Jerel Ezell, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center</p><p dir="ltr"> <strong>Academic focus:</strong></p><p dir="ltr"> Health disparities and social inequalities</p><p dir="ltr"> <strong>Current research project: </strong></p>
<p> <em>Cornell President Martha E. Pollack <a href="https://statements.cornell.edu/2020/20200716-additional-actions.cfm">sent the following message</a> July 16:</em></p>
<p> New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that public schools will not fully reopen for the upcoming school year. New York City students will return to school on a limited basis with only one to three days a week of in-person education and remote learning the remainder of the days.<br /> </p>
Mukoma Wa Ngugi channeled his fascination with Ethiopian "Tizita" songs into his fourth novel, “Unbury Our Dead With Song,” which will be published Sept. 21.
<p>"An art show, like a book, has to tell a story," says Salah Hassan, Goldwin Smith Professor in the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies and professor of Africana studies, noting that when art produced by white artists is defined as "American" and art produced by African-Americans is defined as "ethnic," that story is one of exclusion.</p>