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SUMMARY:The Black Joy Project
DESCRIPTION:Running from February 2 through December 1\, 2024\, the Black Joy Project aims to make an unprecedented celebration of Black JOY visible in our communities and museum spaces. The project celebrates the beauty\, joy\, and resilience of Black women and girls and their lived experiences during COVID-19 and the social unrest after the brutal deaths of George Floyd\, Breonna Taylor\, and others. During 2024\, public events will carry the project’s themes into performances\, workshops\, talks\, and other programs with an exciting variety of artists and experts. The project will grow and build joy throughout the year. \nThroughout the run of the project\, the community can expect events that underscore resilience and healing through food\, performance\, crafting\, music\, and much more. Conversations around self-care and cooking lead into wellness activities and programs encouraging participants to add to the project’s museum display. Programs include a Black business expo (February) to connect local Black business owners with the community and to discuss ideas around growing Black wealth; a multi-day workshop (June) for community members to create their own Book of Life\, inspired by PBS’s hit TV show Finding Your Roots; and a back to school evening (August) for students to learn about and receive materials to incorporate the Samaritan’s Eight Dimensions of Wellness(external link). \nAbout the Curators\nDr. Ruby Mendenhall is a professor in Sociology and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the Associate Dean for Diversity and Democratization of Health Innovation of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. Her research looks at how gun violence affects Black mothers’ mental and physical health. She is currently directing the Nobel Project\, which provides students from marginalized groups unprecedented access to experiences and mentors in science\, technology\, engineering\, art\, and math. She recently trained close to 50 high school and young adults to be Community Health Workers and Citizen/Community Scientists. She is also developing Wellness Stores/Spaces in schools and other locations in communities. \nFlorence Adibu is a Research Scientist at Carle Illinois College of Medicine. She infuses her work with a deep understanding of intercultural learning\, Afrofuturism\, and community healing. She inspires students to become Global Ambassadors\, passionately addressing the intersection of innovation\, inequity\, and knowledge. Florence is a vocal advocate for Black women and girls\, leveraging oral storytelling to speak truth to power in her teaching and writing. \nSupported by:\n\nDr. Allan C. and Marlene S. Campbell Endowment Fund\nRichard J. and Barbara S. Faletti Gallery of African Cultures Fund\nDonald W. and Dorothy Berkey White Endowment Fund\nNorman E. Whitten Spurlock Graduate Assistant Fund\nSpurlock Museum Educational Endowment Fund\nSpurlock Museum Guild Museum Fund\nGirls Like Me Inc.\nCarle Illinois College of Medicine\nPresident’s Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and Humanities\nNational Science Foundation\nIllinois Arts Council Agency
URL:https://ccafricanamericanheritage.org/event/the-black-joy-project/
LOCATION:Spurlock Museum\, 600 S. Gregory\, Urbana\, IL
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SUMMARY:Panel: “‘Rich and Talented and Black and Troubled’: Black Professional Athletes and the Black Freedom Struggle”
DESCRIPTION:Theresa Runstedtler (American Studies\, American University) will be presenting\, with Daniel Gilbert (Labor and Employment Relations\, History) commenting. Part of the symposium Sporting Publics: History\, Sports\, and American Culture\, which is taking place March 28–29\, 2024. \nAbout the Speaker\nTheresa Runstedtler\, PhD is an award-winning scholar of African American history whose research focuses on the intersection of race\, masculinity\, labor\, and sport. Her most recent book\, Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar\, Spencer Haywood\, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA (Bold Type Books\, 2023)\, examines how Black players transformed the professional hoops game\, both on and off the court\, in the 1970s. She is also the author of Jack Johnson\, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line (UC Press\, 2012)\, a transnational biography that explores the first African American world heavyweight champion’s legacy as a Black sporting hero and anti-colonial icon in places as far-flung as Sydney\, London\, Cape Town\, Manila\, Paris\, Havana\, and Mexico City. Jack Johnson\, Rebel Sojourner won the 2013 Phillis Wheatley Book Prize from the Northeast Black Studies Association. Runstedtler has written for Time.com and the LA Review of Books\, and shared her expertise on the History Channel\, Al Jazeera America\, Vox.com\, NPR\, and international radio outlets including the BBC and CBC. Originally from Ontario\, Canada\, she is a professor at American University and lives in Baltimore with her husband and son.
URL:https://ccafricanamericanheritage.org/event/panel-rich-and-talented-and-black-and-troubled-black-professional-athletes-and-the-black-freedom-struggle/
LOCATION:Levis Faculty Center\, 919 W. Illinois St.\, Room 300\, Urbana\, IL
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SUMMARY:Sporting Publics Symposium | Panel with Louis Moore\, Daniel Nasset
DESCRIPTION:Professor Louis Moore will speak about his book I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood\, 1880-1915 (University of Illinois Press\, 2017). Respondent Daniel Nasset (Editor-in-Chief\, University of Illinois Press) will share the editor’s perspective on turning one’s idea into a book that speaks to sporting publics. Part of the symposium Sporting Publics: History\, Sports\, and American Culture\, which is taking place March 28–29\, 2024.  \nAbout the Speaker \nLouis Moore is a Professor of History at Grand Valley State University. He is the author of two books\, I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood\, 1880-1915 and We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement\, the Black Athlete\, and the Quest for Equality. In addition\, he has two audible lectures\, African American Athletes Who Made History and A Pastime of Their Own: The Story of Negro League Baseball. He has also written for various online outlets including The New York Daily News\, Vox\, The Global Sports Institute\, First and Pen\, and the African American Intellectual Historical Society\, and he has appeared on NPR\, MSNBC\, CNN\, and BBC Sports. The co-host of the Black Athlete Podcast\, his latest book\, The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams\, Vince Evans and the Making of the Black Quarterback will be released in fall 2024.
URL:https://ccafricanamericanheritage.org/event/sporting-publics-symposium-panel-with-louis-moore-daniel-nasset/
LOCATION:Levis Faculty Center\, 919 W. Illinois St.\, Room 300\, Urbana\, IL
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SUMMARY:Sporting Publics Symposium | Conversation with Shakeia Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Shakeia Taylor is a Chicago-based award-winning writer and storyteller\, whose work focuses on the intersection of sports\, history\, and culture. \nShe is currently a Deputy Senior Content Editor at the Chicago Tribune\, host of the Society for American Baseball Research’s (SABR) monthly interview series “Ballpark Figures\,” and a member of the Negro Leagues and Teams Committee\, a special committee convened to study other leagues and teams from Black baseball history. An advocate for diversity in journalism\, she is also an active member of the Association for Women in Sports Media\, the National Association of Black Journalists\, and the Society for American Baseball Research. \nBefore joining the Chicago Tribune in 2022\, Taylor was a freelance sports and culture writer\, earning features in Baseball Prospectus\, SB Nation\, Fangraphs\, Victory Journal\, MLB.com\, and several other publications. She has appeared on podcasts and radio shows in the U.S. and Canada\, and she can be seen in ESPN’s “The Captain” and Negro League documentary “The League.” \nIn 2021\, Shakeia received an Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) award for her Privilege of Play series on Yahoo! Sports\, and won the 2021 SABR Analytics Conference Research Award for historical baseball analysis/commentary\, becoming the first Black woman to ever receive the prestigious honor. \nAs one of the best baseball writers today\, Taylor has helped shine a light on race and culture in baseball.
URL:https://ccafricanamericanheritage.org/event/sporting-publics-symposium-conversation-with-shakeia-taylor/
LOCATION:Levis Faculty Center\, 919 W. Illinois St.\, Room 300\, Urbana\, IL
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