All Events
Panel Discussion
Free-Dem Foundations: From Wrongful Incarceration to Community Mobilization
MCC Theater
Robert Jones, Jerome Moran and Daniel Rideau
Panel Discussion at Center for Black Studies Research, 4603 South Hall: 12PM
Discussion with Jerome Morgan, MCC Theater: 6PM
Free-Dem Foundations is a non-profits community based organization that partners with local business and NGO's to empower New Orleans' area youth. Created by Robert Jones, Jerome Moran and Daniel Rideau, these men were all wrongfully convicted and served a total of more than fifty years in Angola Prison before being found innocent.
Cup of Culture
Symbols of Resistance
MCC Theater
Symbols of Resistance looks at the history of the Chican@ Movement as it emerges in the 1970s with a focus on events in Colorado and Northern New Mexico. The documentary explores the struggle for land, the student movement, and community struggles against police repression. Specifically, it challenges the criminalization of immigration by emphasizing the history of the U.S. expansion and occupation of northern Mexico during the Mexican-American War (1846–48) – when “the border crossed people.” 1h 15 mins.
Race Matters Series
An African American and Latinx History of the United States Paul Ortiz
MCC Lounge
Paul Ortiz will discuss and sign copies of 'An African American and Latinx History of the United States,' his new book on the intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latina/o human rights. This book is a reinterpretation of United States history from the American Revolution to present keying on Black and Brown workers and social movement leaders who sought to democratize the country in ways we have too often forgotten--but must now remember in this time of national crisis. Paul Ortiz is Professor of History at the University of Florida.
Opening Reception: Tuesday, January 16th, 6 pm
La Hija de Jardineros / The Gardeners’ Daughter Alexandra “Lexx” Valdez
MCC Lounge
Alexandra “Lexx” Valdez is a Xicana creative who believes in collective growth through a transformative and sustainable creative process. Raised in the small agricultural town of Guadalupe, California, Lexx earned her BFA in Graphic Design from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Lexx’s style can be characterized by its photo-collage aesthetic and the bold colors that she uses to create vibrantly-illustrated worlds that aim to uplift ancestral knowledge. In La Hija de Jardineros, Lexx Valdez presents a collection of digital collages that have been inspired by ancestral knowledge and the earth that grows it.
