Events and Activities

Black History Nerds Saturday School is a monthly professional development series provided by the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education for pre-K-12 school teachers and others interested in learning more about Black history and race. These one-hour sessions aim to help develop Black history content pedagogical knowledge. Videos of all presentations are available at ed.buffalo.edu/bh-nerds.

Jan. 21 A Love Letter to Buffalo: #BuffaloSyllabus and Digital Scholarship featuring J. Coley, Dr. Robert Mays, William Richardson and Tiana U. Wilson.

Feb. 4 From History to Destiny: What Does it Mean to be Black featuring Dr. Chike Akua.

Feb. 11 Hands That Pick Cotton Now Pick Public Officials: Black Women’s Geography and the Activism of Fannie Lou Hammer featuring Dr. Amanda Vickery.

Feb. 18 Why Aren’t Black People Allowed to Fear in U.S. History featuring Brittany Jones.

Feb. 25 What You Heard?

Teaching with Oral Histories of Black America featuring Dr. Arcasia James-Gallaway.

March 4 Social Justice in Historical Context featuring Dr. Ashley Farmer.

April 1 The Underground Railroad, The Black Inner Geek, & The Outer Spaces of Slavery (Afrofuturism) featuring Dr. Daniel Broyld.

Researching Race Series is professional development for academics and autodidacts interested in learning about race, racism and research provided by the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education.

Nov. 3 QuantCrit: An Antiracist Approach to Educational Inquiry by Dr. Nichole Garcia.

April 25 Black Storytelling from Margin to Center: Dreaming Through Endarkened Storywork by Dr. Stephanie Toliver.

March 4 Literacy as a Civil Right with Kareem Weaver, a co-founder and executive director of FULCRUM.

April 28 Graduate Student Research Symposium: (Un)Censoring the Narrative, Transgressing Power and Activism in Education.

April 19 Bobinski Lecture: Books and the Culture War by Emily J.M. Knox, associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign.

April 24 Educaring for Self and Others in a Time of Climate Crisis.

May 11 Racism, Racial Literacy and Mental Health: A Conversation with Dr. Howard Stevenson.

April 25 Navigating the Academic Job Market as a BIPOC Person featuring Dr. Africa S. Hands, assistant professor in GSE’s Department of Information Science; Dr. Naomi Thompson, assistant professor in GSE’s Department of Learning and Instruction; and Dr. Kristian Douglas, assistant professor at Clark Atlanta University.