All Events
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: Joy DeGruy
MCC Theater
In this talk, Dr. DeGruy presents facts that illustrate how varying levels of both clinically induced and socially learned residual stress related issues were passed along through generations as a result of slavery. The theory of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome suggests that centuries of slavery followed by systemic racism and oppression have resulted in multigenerational adaptive behaviors—some of which have been positive and re?ective of resilience and others that are detrimental and destructive. Dr. Joy DeGruy is a nationally and internationally renowned researcher, educator, author, and presenter. She is a tell-it-like-it-is ambassador for healing and a voice for those who’ve struggled in search of the past and continue to struggle through the present.
Diversity Lecture Series
From Minority to Majority, Invisible to Envisioning Helen Zia
MCC Theater
In these challenging times, as people of color, feminists, LGBTQs, and People of Conscience make up the majority of America and refuse to be silenced, writer Helen Zia, the daughter of immigrants from China, explores our increasingly colorful future and the imperative for communities to move forward together to re-envision the new face of America.
Helen Zia is an activist, award-winning author and former journalist who is outspoken on issues ranging from human rights and peace to women’s rights and countering homophobia. Helen received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the Law School of the City University of New York and is a Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of Princeton University’s first coeducational class.
Cup of Culture
Guava Island
MCC Theater
In this film, starring Donald Glover and Rihanna, a young musician seeks to hold a festival to liberate the oppressed people of Guava Island, even if only for a day. Guava Island is a 2019 musical-romance-thriller from director Hiro Murai. 56m
Race and Religion
The Struggle Continues: Religion, Prisons, and Abolition
MCC Lounge
Laura McTighe is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Florida State University and the
Co-Founder and Associate Director of Front Porch Research Strategy in New Orleans.
As an interdisciplinary scholar of gender, race, religion, and social movements, she
studies the often-hidden histories of struggle that fill our present and asks how activists
use religion to organize and transform our world.
