A.C.T.O.R. presents: A screening of Traces of the Trade, followed by a discussion with director, Katrina Browne.In Traces of the Trade, Producer/Director Katrina Browne tells the story of her forefathers, the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. Given the myth that the South is solely responsible for slavery, viewers will be surprised to learn that (more…)

Much of what we know of North Korea comes from foreign correspondents on tightly controlled tours of Pyongyang and the odd visits?underline odd?by the likes of Dennis Rodman. To say that that North Korea remains a riddle wrapped up in an enigma is a screaming understatement. Richard Stone, international news editor at Science magazine, is (more…)

Private lunch in Robeson Room. To plan an event at Busboys and Poets, please click here .  (more…)

How to Jump-Start Your Union tells how activists transformed their union and gave members hope. Readers will learn how to run for office, work with their communities, build stewards networks, train new leaders, run a contract campaign, and strike. Labor Notes has done it again!   Every unionist should read this book   that chronicles how (more…)

Co-founder of the peace group CODEPINK Medea Benjamin has just returned from a harrowing trip to Egypt where she was detained at the airport, beaten, and deported by the authorities. Though they gave no reason for their actions, this was quite clearly done to prevent Medea from joining an international delegation of women going through (more…)

UMD Women’s Studies Department Presents a Community Forum: Women of Color and Mass Incarceration Forum featuring: Nikki Jones, Associate Professor, African American Studies at UC- Berkeley Andrea James, Families for Justice as Healing Ashley McSwain, Consultants for Change, Inc. Forum Moderator: Psyche Williams-Forson, Associate Professor, American Studies, UMD Event Sponsored by the Department of Women?s (more…)

Private meeting in the Zinn Room (more…)

Private Event in the Zinn Room (more…)

Andy4DC in the Langston Room (more…)