The Happenings

Take a look at what’s going on.

To submit an event to The Happenings, please email events@blackvoicesu.com.

 

Sep
29
Mon
Oprah Winfrey @ Goldstein Auditorium
Sep 29 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Sep
30
Tue
Van Jones: Green Jobs and Sustainability @ Hendricks Chapel
Sep 30 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

University Lectures presents Van Jones.

Van Jones is president and co-founder of Rebuild the Dream, and co-host to CNN’s Crossfire reboot.

Recently named a co-host to CNN’s Crossfire reboot, Van Jones is president and co-founder of Rebuild the Dream, a platform for bottom-up, people-powered innovations to help fix the U.S. economy. A Yale-educated attorney, Jones has written two New York Times Best Sellers: “The Green Collar Economy,” the definitive book on green jobs, and “Rebuild the Dream,” a roadmap for progressives in 2012 and beyond. In 2009, Jones worked as the green jobs advisor to the Obama White House. There, he helped run the inter-agency process that oversaw $80 billion in green energy recovery spending.

Jones is the founder of Green For All, a national organization working to get green jobs to disadvantaged communities. He was the main advocate for the Green Jobs Act, signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2007, the first piece of federal legislation to codify the term “green jobs.” Under the Obama administration, the Green Jobs Act has resulted in $500 million for green job training nationally. Jones had also worked in social justice for nearly two decades and is the co-founder of two social justice organizations—the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Color of Change.

Feb
5
Thu
OMA presents Dr. Umar Johnson @ Gifford Auditorum, HBC
Feb 5 @ 7:00 pm
OMA presents Dr. Umar Johnson @ Gifford Auditorum, HBC | Syracuse | New York | United States

The Office of Multicultural Affairs presents Black to the Future: The Attack on Civil Rights and the Return of Jim Crow Justice

Keynote Speaker – Dr. Umar Johnson

Presented in partnership with The Black Voice

Feb
26
Thu
Crystal T. Laura – Against the Social Ecology Of School Discipline: Teaching for Love, Justice, and JoyAgainst the Social Ecology Of School Discipline: Teaching for Love, Justice, and Joy
Feb 26 @ 5:30 pm
Crystal T. Laura - Against the Social Ecology Of School Discipline: Teaching for Love, Justice, and JoyAgainst the Social Ecology Of School Discipline: Teaching for Love, Justice, and Joy @ United States

The Douglas Bilken Landscape Urban Education Lecture Series presents
as part of the
2014-2015 Surveillance & Segregation in 21st Century Schools:
Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Against the Social Ecology Of School Discipline: Teaching for Love, Justice, and Joy with Crystal T. Laura, Ph.D.

Crystal T. Laura, Ph.D. – teacher, activist, author – will discuss her new book, Being Bad: My Baby Brother and the School-to-Prison Pipeline, a riveting account of her younger brother’s odyssey through school and to prison. She makes an eloquent and urgent argument that schools can only succeed with all of our children when they are built on a foundation of “love, justice, and joy,” a pursuit she describes as “dangerous and worthwhile.”

Crystal T. Laura, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of educational leadership and co-director of theCenter for Urban Research and Education at Chicago State University, and a volunteer teacher at St. Leonard’s Adult High School for formerly incarcerated men and women. Among her publications are Being Bad: My Baby Brother and the School-to-Prison Pipeline (2014) and Diving In: Bill Ayers and the Art of Teaching Into the Contradiction (co-edited with Isabel Nunez and Rick Ayers, 2014). By day, she explores teacher education and leadership preparation for learning in the context of social justice with the goal of training school professionals to recognize, understand, and address the school-to-prison pipeline. During the second shift, she co-parents two marvelous boys who give her work in the field of education particular urgency.

Mar
4
Wed
The Throwaways: Film Screening & Filmmaker Discussion @ Maxwell Auditorium
Mar 4 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The Throwaways: Film Screening & Filmmaker Discussion @ Maxwell Auditorium | United States

Please join the Department of Sociology and the Department of African American Studies for this public screening of the new documentary film, The Throwaways, followed by a discussion with the film co-directors Ira McKinley and Bhawin Suchak.

For more information on the film or to view its trailer, visit http://throwawaysmovie.com/.

Mar
22
Sun
NABJ-SU presents Jesse Williams @ "The Herg" (Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium)
Mar 22 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Mar
24
Tue
Sanya Richards-Ross @ Grant Audtorium
Mar 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Sanya Richards-Ross @ Grant Audtorium | Syracuse | New York | United States

The Caribbean Students Association, She’s the First – Syracuse, Sport Professionals of Color and the Delta Zeta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.
present
The Woman Behind the Gold: Sanya Richards-Ross

Come and enjoy an evening with four-time Olympic champion Sanya Richards-Ross as she discusses culture, sports, women’s empowerment, and entrepreneurship.

Mar
25
Wed
Truth Be Told featuring Forest Whitaker @ Hendricks Chapel
Mar 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Sep
19
Sat
Black Cultural Showcase @ Goldstein Auditorium
Sep 19 @ 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Black Cultural Showcase @ Goldstein Auditorium | Syracuse | New York | United States

Ubuntu: Black Leadership Network presents the Black Cultural Showcase. An involvement fair that will feature over 40 Black and Latino student organizations and services. Also enjoy performances by Black Reign Step Team, Black Legacy, Redemption, One World, and DJ Zel. Learn about campus organizations and how you can get involved on campus.