Black Arts Fest Week at Bucknell University commenced in full force with a vibrant kickoffbrunch on February 18th, 2024. Hosted by the Black Student Union (BSU), this thirteenth annual tradition brought together Black students and allies from neighboring organizations for… Read moreCelebrating Black Excellence: Kickoff Brunch Marks the Start of Black Arts Fest
In the spirit of MLK week, on January 21st, Rooke chapel, Gospel Choir, and Bucknell religious and spiritual life in collaboration with the griot institute hosted awonderful service at the chapel to Commemorate the Life and Legacy of the Rev…. Read moreM.L.K Week Event: Gospel Choir
Lecture: Joy and Pain, the Representations of Black Life from Slavery through the Gilded Age On October 3, 2023, the campus of Bucknell University hosted Erica Armstrong Dunbar, an esteemed American Historian from Rutgers University. Her lecture on the representations… Read moreErica Dunbar: Lecture
On January 19th, Bucknell University hosted a pivotal MLK Week Event centered on the imperative task of unlearning racism within our institution. The event, held in the Hildreth Mirza Great Room, drew significant attendance as students and faculty convened to… Read moreMLK Week Event Recap: Unlearning Racism at a PWI
Each academic year, the Griot Institute identifies a question or issue of interest that’s central to the continued study of Black lives and cultures and develops a series of programs to explore these questions from multiple disciplinary perspectives and dimensions…. Read moreGriot Spring Series 🌸: “Black Joy: A Strategy for Healing, Freedom and Reckoning,” with Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts
((Written by Ninah Jackson and Ryleigh Roberts)) Our 2024 Keynote Speaker and Bucknell Alum, Gbenga Akinnagbe, came to campus for a lunch Q/A and gave a lecture for the Sustaining Social Movements series. Founder of Liberated People, an activism and… Read moreGbenga Akinnagbe: Lecture and Q/A
