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The new Transcultural Encounters and Border Crossings Film Series presents Children in No Man’s Land (2009), by a Panama-born, U.S.-based documentary filmmaker Anayansi Prado, on Saturday, Feb. 21, at 3 p.m. at the Athena Cinema. Admission is free. Children in No Man’s Land is is a documentary that uncovers the […]

The new Transcultural Encounters and Border Crossings Film Series presents Dirt (2003) by American director Nancy Savoca, of Sicilian and Argentinian background, on Saturday, Feb. 7, at 3 p.m. at the Athena Cinema. Admission is free. Dirt is the story of Dolores Del Rosario, who lives with her husband and […]

Ohio University’s 2014-15 Kennedy Lecture Series presents “An Evening with Nell Irvin Painter” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 26, in Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. A leading American historian and an award-winning scholar, Painter is best known for her seven books and numerous articles on the history of the American South […]

MLK and Strategies for Social Change: Then & Now is a panel discussion about the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s strategic vision for creating social change and how activists are inspired by him today in the struggle for racial justice. The panel discussion is Friday, Jan. 23, from […]

Ohio University celebrates the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a Day of Service school supply drive for Trimble Elementary School. The last day to donate is Jan. 30. Collection sites are Alden Library second and fourth floors Cutler Hall African American Studies Department (31 S. […]

Ohio University Women’s Center‎ presents Dr. Michele Tracy Berger on “Keeping it in the Family: African American Mother and Daughter Discussions of Health, Young Womanhood and HIV Risk” on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m. at Walter 135. Berger is Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies […]

The first Critical Resistance event of the year will be a Students for Law, Justice & Culture-coordinated faculty panel discussion on the recent Ferguson protests on Thursday, Sept. 11, at 6 p.m. in Athena Theater 212. Faculty panelists include Professors Kelly Faust, Patricia Gunn, Vince Jungkunz, and Debra Thompson. Each year, […]