Author and Activist Barbara Smith to Lecture at Brooklyn College on March 16 One of her first public appearances since 2020 will serve as an extraordinary complement to Brooklyn College’s Women’s History Month celebration. Read More
Author and Activist Barbara Smith Serving as Brooklyn College’s Hess Scholar-in-Residence for 2022-23 The independent scholar has opened up a national cultural and political dialogue about the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. On November 29, Smith will be part of a conversation on campus with Jeanne Theoharis to discuss selected clips from the newly released documentary, “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” which features Smith and is also based on Theoharis’ research and book of the same name. Read More
Brooklyn College Welcomes Lisa Lowe, Ph.D., as Its 2021–2022 Hess Scholar in Residence Professor of American Studies at Yale University will headline discussions on the Asian-American experience, legacies of settler colonialism, slavery, and empire in the contemporary United States. Read More
‘The World Is Before You, and You Need Not Take It or Leave It as You Came In,’ Says Hess Scholar in Residence Edwidge Danticat The award-winning Haitian-American author and activist spoke at the annual Hess Memorial Lecture about the shared experience of people of the African diaspora and how to work together for positive change. Read More
Memorabilia From Ebbets Field Stir Memories of Glory Days of Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Brooklyn College exhibit of blueprints, player photos and other memorabilia breeds nostalgia for Ebbets Field, a baseball shrine that is gone but not forgotten. Read More
