This is an archive of all past events (including those that were cancelled due to the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic) under the banner of the 400 Years initiative organized during the 2019-2020 academic year. Image Aug. 30: Day-long Symposium Image Sept. 11: Film Screening - Gina's Journey Image Sept. 12: Ibram Kendi - How to be an Anti-Racist Image Sept. 12: Fearing the Black Body Image Sept. 19: A Talk with Nadine Burke Harris Image Sept. 21: Black Life - Michelle M. Wright Image Sept. 26: Monica White - Freedom Farmers Image Oct. 7: Liam Martin - The Recovery Hustle Image Oct. 7: N. Faustine - I Was Brought Here to Stay Image Oct. 10: Film Screening - Barber of Birmingham Image Oct. 11: Ian Haney Lopez - Merge Left Image Oct. 13: Reading - Tongo Eisen-Martin & more Image Oct. 16: Paul Butler - Prison Abolition Image Oct. 17: Ruha Benjamin - The New Jim Code? Image Oct. 21: Nikki Jones - Color-Blind Cops Image Oct. 23: Judith Carney - Africa’s Food Legacy Image Oct. 26: Black Life - Films by Ephraim Asili Image Nov. 8: Afropop Spectacular Image Nov. 12: Waldo Martin - DEEP SOUL Image Nov. 13: Marisa J. Fuentes Image Sept. 19 - Nov. 25: Marlon Riggs Film Series Image Nov. 24: Black Life - Diamano Coura Class Image Dec. 11: Film Screening - The Long Shadow Image Feb. 1: interGeneration400 Image Feb. 5: Capitalism and Freedom Image Feb. 18: Rodney Leon on Black Public Art Image Feb. 20: We Shall Overcome Image Feb. 21: Deirdre Cooper Owens - Slavery, Race, & American Gynecology Image Feb. 22: Gia White, Black History Mountain View Cemetery Tour Image Feb. 24: Khiara Bridges - Imagining an Ethnography Image Mar. 4: Gary Younge - Why America Wants Gun Control But Doesn’t Have It Image Mar. 6: Elise C. Boddie - Struggling for the Soul of Public Education Image CANCELLED: Mar. 13: Jenifer Barclay - We Saw in Him Each of Us Image [CANCELLED] Mar. 31 - Apr. 5: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Image Apr. 14: The Speculative Design of John Jennings Image [CANCELLED] Apr. 24: C. Riley Snorton - Nonbinary Archives & the Grammar of Experience Image [POSTPONED] Apr. 20: Kahlil Joseph on BLKNWS Image [CANCELLED] Apr. 22: Terence Keel - Christianity, Race, Slavery Image [POSTPONED] May 16: Black Life: Mandy Harris Williams Image [CANCELLED] May 2-3: Performance - Joplin's Treemonisha Image May 1: Conversations with Nancy Krieger on: Structural Racism, Social Justice, and COVID-19 Image Nov. 18: Reparations after 400 years