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Black Studies Events

2024-2025

2023-2024

2021-2022

Unseen: An Analysis of the BIPOC Experience at Providence College presented by Justin Babu ’23

Book Launch for You are Seen, You are Heard, You are Loved by Professor Akeem Lloyd

Naimah-Petigny

#PCBreakTheSilence Living Memory Documentary

#PCBreakTheSilence Film Screening Event

PCBreakTheSilence-Film-Screening

Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas

2020-2021

Socials-Black-Lives-Matter-Event

Black Lives Matter with Dr. Melina Abdullah

Black lives matter poster

ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER: Intersectionality and Solidarity

advertisement for Scholar Strike

Scholar Strike Program flyer

#ScholarStrike Day One

#ScholarStrike Day Two

Juneteenth Commemoration flyer

2019-2020

Advertisement for Martin Luther King's Beyond Vietname

Advertisement for the Slave Master of Trinidad

2018-2019

EC Osondu reading, black studies events

2016-2017

Beyonce's Lemonade screening flyer

Black Women and Girls Symposium flyer

2015-2016

teach-in for students flyer

kiese layom flyer

love your melanin flyer

Dr. Melaina Abdullah flyer

Dr. Eric Hirsch

Interim Department Chair
Faculty Profile
Howley Hall 117
401-865-2510
ehirsch@providence.edu

Katherine Lynch

Administrative Coordinator
Howley Hall 119
401.865.2125
klynch25@providence.edu