Charting Our Path: Celebrating 50 Years of Black Studies (1971-2021)

The Department of Black Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha is proud to celebrate its 50th anniversary in the 2021-22 academic year. Since 1971, Black Studies' faculty and staff have focused our teaching, research, and service on the analysis, critique, and discussion of African continental and diasporic experiences, and the systems of oppression and resistance that characterize those experiences. Through our strategic goals of academic excellence, student centeredness, and community engagement, we continue the long, strong, focused determination of the discipline of Black Studies to counter the narrative of white supremacy and African inferiority.

UNO's Department of Black Studies brings expertise of sociology, history, communication, race, political science, law and criminology, psychology, education, literature, business and economics, and ancient and contemporary African histories and political experiences. As Africa is the home of humanity, civilization, and society, we believe the knowledge of these is central to the understanding of the whole human experience. We invite you to join us and become part of this great academic adventure as we celebrate our 50th year as the Department of Black Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

2022 Events

March 22, 2022 at 2:00 PM

Date	Topic	Event Registration
Jan. 27, 2022 at 6:00 PM CT	Major Prolegomena Issues in Black Studies: Past, Present, and Future	Register Here
Feb. 3, 2022 at 6:00 PM CT	The History of Jazz in Omaha	Register Here
Feb. 10, 2022 at 6:00 PM CT	The Role of the Barbershop in the Black Community: A Lecture by Dr. Quincy Mills	Register Here
Feb. 17, 2022 at 6:00 PM CT	Africana Womanism: A Lecture by Dr. Valethia Watkins	Register Here
Feb. 24, 2022 at 6:00 PM CT	Black Women's Activism: A Lecture by Dr. Dawne Curry	Register Here
March 3, 2022 at 6:00 PM CT	From Prisoners to Public Historians: A Lecture by Dr. Andy Eisen	Register Here
March 10, 2022 at 6:00 PM CT	The Sentencing Project — Part II	Register Here
March 22, 2022 at 2:00 PM CT	Issues in Contemporary African Politics	TBD
March 24, 2022 at 6:00 PM CT	African-centered Analysis of African Literature	TBD
March 31, 2022 at 5:30 PM CT	African Personhood and the Provision of Services to the Black Community	TBD
April 9, 2022 at 11:00 AM CT	Black Aviators of WWII — Caribbean RAF Pilots and Tuskegee Airmen	TBD
April 12, 2022 at 1:00 PM CT	Factors Promoting Belief in Self-Competency in Math for Black College Students	TBD
April 19, 2022 at 2:00 PM CT	Book Salon on Don't Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms	TBD
April 21, 2022 at 6:00 PM CT	The Impact of Parental Racial Socialization of Black School Children	TBD
April 28, 2022 at 6:00 PM CT	Historical Challenges and Future Directions for Black Studies Departments	TBD

2021 Events

Date	Topic	Event Recording
Dec. 4, 2021 at 11:00 AM	A Conversation with Award-Winning Black History Children’s Book Authors K.N. Chimbiri and Preston Love, Jr.	Watch Now
Nov. 30, 2021	Recounting Black Omaha History through Family Archives: Faculty Family Histories — Antiques Roadshow-Style	Watch Now
Nov. 16, 2021	Remembering the Past: Face-to-Face with Our Youth	Watch Now
Nov. 11, 2021	Silenced: An Unlock Civics Documentary	Watch Now
Oct. 26, 2021	Ma’at Blinded: Africana Views on the Challenge of the Loss of Shame for the Individual and the Community	Watch Now
Oct. 21, 2021	Africanizing the Great Plains: Black Frontier Identities, Sovereignty, and (Re)Imagination	Watch Now
October 12, 2021	Faculty Book Salon: A Conversation with Jennifer Harbour	Watch Now
July 28, 2021	Omaha 54 and 50 Years of Black Studies	Watch Now

Descendants of DeWitty NE exhibit comes to UNO Libraries’ Osborne Gallery

The 25-photo exhibit shares the history of the people of DeWitty, the largest African American homestead settlement in Nebraska. The traveling exhibit is on loan from the Descendants of DeWitty NE organization. The exhibit will run September 1- November 7, 2021.