Events By Quarter
Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women E. Patrick Johnson
MCC Theater
E. Patrick Johnson is the chair of African American Studies, Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies, and African American Studies at Northwestern University. As a scholar and artist, Johnson performs nationally and internationally and has published widely in the areas of race, gender, sexuality, and performance. Johnson’s performance work dovetails with his written work; this performance/staged reading is based off his latest nonfiction text titled Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women.
Diversity Lecture Series
'Fros, Berets, and Leather: The Revolutionary Solidarity of the Young Lords Johanna Fernandez
MCC Theater
Johanna Fernández is the author of The Young Lords: A Radical History (UNC Press, February 2020), a history of the Puerto Rican counterpart to the Black Panther Party. She teaches 20th Century US history and the history of social movements in the Department ofHistory at Baruch College (CUNY).
Resilient Love Series
From “The Central Park Five” to “The Exonerated Five” Yusef Salaam
Corwin Pavilion
On April 19, 1989, a young woman was brutally raped in New York City’s Central Park. Five boys—four black and one Latino—were unjustly and wrongly convicted of the crime in a frenzied case that rocked the city. Decades later, the convictions of the boys, now men, were eventually overturned and they were exonerated. One of those boys, Yusef Salaam, was only 15 years old when his life was upended and changed forever. Since his release, Yusef has committed himself to advocating and educating people on the issues of false confessions, police brutality and misconduct, press ethics and bias, race and law, and the disparities in America’s criminal justice system.
Music Performance
TANYARADZWA TAWENGA
Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa collaborates with UCSB students to perform The Dawn of the Rooster, an opera that she composed to tell the story of her family during Zimbabwe's liberation struggle. Tanyaradzwa is a Ph.D. student at the University of Kentucky and an award-winning performer on the African mbira, piano and cello. She sings in African, African American, and Western classical traditions including opera.
