Faculty Symposium: Black Lives Matter, Six Years Later

The Department of Social Sciences, Human Services, and Criminal Justice is hosting our Annual Faculty Symposium. This year, the symposium will center on Black Lives Matter (BLM), the social movement spawned by the criminalization and state-sanctioned violence of Black bodies that impelled the nation to acknowledge the humaneness of Black people and the “past in the present.”

The work of this ideological and political intervention seeks to organize action that works to address the long-standing issues of equality, equity, and justice; and to amplify the voices of Black queer people and trans women whose contributions to the Black Power movement have been erased. The new landscape of the movement has witnessed a necessary re-emergence of the unpacking of whiteness and white privilege and the critical analysis of intersectionality. Thus, it is at a critical juncture that faculty will examine the contexts that shaped Black Lives Matter Six Years later through the lens of the social sciences.

We are honored to have Patrisse Cullors, artist, organizer, freedom fighter and Co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement to deliver the keynote address. Faculty, staff, students and the public are welcome to join in on the conversation on April 12, 2019.

Please register here for this event.

View the livestream.

For more information contact Jamie Warren at jwarren@bmcc.cuny.edu or Amy Sodaro at asodaro@bmcc.cuny.edu.

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