Throughout the month of February, UC is celebrating Black history month — an official recognition of the incredible and lasting impact and achievements of the Black community. Follow UC's social accounts (Facebook: University of California, Twitter: @uofcalifornia, Instagram: @uofcalifornia) to hear the voices of Black staff, faculty, students and alumni from across the university sharing their visions for the future, which inspire their work today.
Please join us for these virtual events from throughout UC that are open to students, faculty and staff from all campuses.
All events are listed with Pacific Time. Select the event title for more information or to register.
The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized: Cultural Revolution in the Black Power Era
Feb. 10, 12-1:30 p.m.
Presented by the UC Santa Barbara Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
The N-Word: Race, Language and the University Classroom
Feb. 10, 12:10 p.m.
Presented by UCLA Law
Razing Africville: The Legacy of Environmental Racism
Feb. 10, 1-2:15 p.m.
Presented by the UC Merced Black Alliance
Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America
Feb. 10, 4:30 p.m.
Presented by UC Berkeley BSFO & Contra Costa College Presents
Alyscia Cunningham: I Am More Than My Hair
Feb. 10, 4:30 p.m.
Presented by the UC Davis Manetti Shrem Museum
BSFO Film Series presents “Soul”
Feb. 10, 5-6:50 p.m.
Presented by the UC Office of the President Black Staff and Faculty Organization
Changing Climate: The Role of Environmental Justice with Rhiana Gunn-Wright
Feb. 10, 5:30-7 p.m.
Presented by the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation
Cup of Culture: See You Yesterday
Feb. 10, 6 p.m.
Presented by the UC Santa Barbara MultiCultural Center
Resilient Love Series Presents – Black Trans Lives Matter with CeCe McDonald and Elle Hearns
Feb. 11, 6 p.m.
Presented by the UC Santa Barbara MultiCultural Center
Exploring and Empowering Our Community: Black Men in White Coats Film Screening and Panel
Feb. 11, 6-8:30 p.m.
Presented by the UCSF Multicultural Resource Center
Earl W. Edwards: In My Own Words — My Story as a Black Man in America
Feb. 12, 11 a.m.
Presented by UC San Diego Intercollegiate Athletics
COVID-19 We Need to Talk Series: “R U Taking the Vaccine?”
Feb. 12, 2:30 p.m.
Presented by the UC Office of the President Black Staff and Faculty Organization with the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations
37th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation with Mariame Kaba in conversation with Gina Dent
Feb. 12, 5:30 p.m.
Presented by UC Santa Cruz
Reaping What We Sow: A Conversation with Pulitzer Prize Winner, Alice Walker
Feb. 15, 12-1:30 p.m.
Presented by the UC Berkeley Department of African American Studies
Fireside chat with Nikole Hannah-Jones
Feb. 16, 4-6 p.m.
Presented by the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Office of Equity and Diversity Inclusion
Design for the Living: Food, Farming and Cultural Ecology
Feb. 17, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
Presented by the UC Merced Black Alliance
Dante King Lecture Series: Anti‐Blackness and Its Link to Racism, Power and Privilege
Feb. 17, 12‐ 1:30 p.m.
Presented by the UCSF Multicultural Resource Center
Black History Month Fireside Chat with Jamin Gallman (Head of Diversity and Inclusion, SpaceX)
Feb. 17, 1-2 p.m.
Presented by the UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Defund the Police Panel: Reimagining Public Safety
Feb. 17, 2-3 p.m.
Presented by the UC Office of the President Black Staff and Faculty Organization
Black & Undocumented: Understanding the Intersectionality
Feb. 17, 3-4 p.m.
Presented by the UC Riverside African Student Programs
Love & Justice with Dr. Durryle Brooks
Feb. 17, 6:15-7:30 p.m.
Presented by the UC Riverside African Student Programs
After Charlie Parker: A Conversation
Feb. 18, 4 p.m.
Presented by the UC Berkeley Townsend Center for the Humanities
Diversity Lecture Series Presents – Black Lives, Indigenous Lives: from Mattering to Thriving with Andrew Jolivette
Feb. 18, 6 p.m.
Presented by the UC Santa Barbara MultiCultural Center
The Black Index: Archiving Black Creativity and Resistance
Feb. 19, 12-1 p.m.
Getty museum in partnership with UC Irvine
Holistic Healing: Finding Harmony Between the Mind, Body, and Spirit
Feb. 20, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Presented by the UC Davis Health African-American Faculty and Staff Association
Among Quilters: Carolyn Mazloomi and Ora Clay on Rosie Lee Tompkins
Feb. 20, 2 p.m.
Presented by the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
30th Anniversary Event: Honoring Our Roots, Uplifting Black Voices
Feb. 20, 6-8 p.m.
Presented by the UC Santa Cruz African American Theatre Arts Troupe
WRRC Black Femme Magic Week Keynote With Gabrielle Felder
Feb. 22, 4 p.m.
Presented by the UC Davis Women’s Resources & Research Center
Choc'late Soldiers from the USA
Feb. 23, 4:40 p.m.
Presented by UC Berkeley BSFO & Contra Costa College Presents
The Movement for Black Lives, Fighting for Black Futures
Feb. 23, 6 p.m., at this Zoom link
Presented by the UC Santa Barbara MultiCultural Center
Black Indigeneity and Dispossession: The Meaning of Land, Sovereignty and Freedom
Feb. 24, 5-6:15 p.m.
Presented by the UC Merced Black Alliance
Mental Health in the Black Community: Experiences, Perspectives, and Healing
Feb. 24, 6-7:30 p.m.
Presented by the UC Davis Health African-American Faculty and Staff Association
Black Lives, Botany and the Path to Decolonization
Feb. 25, 10-11 a.m.
Presented by the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden
Living Democracy Talk: Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
Feb. 25, 4-5 p.m.
Presented by the UC Santa Barbara Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
How “Diversity” Underdeveloped Higher Education
Feb. 26, 12-1:30 p.m.
Presented by the UC Santa Barbara Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Black Life: Dax Pierson
Feb. 26, 6 p.m.
Presented by the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
To Boldly Go: Being Black in Higher Education with UC Provost Dr. Michael Brown
March 4, 2-3 p.m.
Hosted by the UC Riverside Black Faculty and Staff Association
Have another Black History Month event to add to the list? Send the details to our editors at ucnetwork@universityofcalifornia.edu.