The film Dear White People follows the lives of four black students at an Ivy League college. Director and writer Justin Simien says, “My film is about identity. It's about the difference between...

Open to all students who would like to learn more about American Studies at UMBC — including our Council of Majors and the department’s individualized and interdisciplinary approach to the...

TO: The Campus Community FROM: Provost Philip Rous and CAHSS Dean Scott Casper In light of the recent events in Baltimore City, we are planning a teach-in with the UMBC community to offer an...

TO: The Campus Community FROM: Provost Philip Rous and CAHSS Dean Scott Casper In light of the recent events in Baltimore City, we are planning a teach-in with the UMBC community to offer an...

Trevor J. Blank is an assistant professor of communication at the State University of New York at Potsdam, where he teaches courses in folklore, mass media, and digital culture and researches...

M. K. Asante is a professor of creative writing and film in the Department of English and Language Arts at Morgan State University as well as an author, activist, rapper and documentary filmmaker....

Immigrant rights activist Maria Gabriela Pacheco is a prominent figure in the national immigrant rights movement and is currently the Program Director of TheDream.US, a national organization that...

Baltimore Traces: Stories of the City’s Changing Neighborhoods Presents Aletheia Hyun-Jin Shin Maryland College of Arts (MICA) Community Arts on the Onngi Project in Station North March 5 ITE...

A screening of the 2013 documentary Gentrification k(NOT) with activist, social worker, sociologist, and filmmaker Jude Lombardi Gentrification k(NOT)  explores the meaning of the term...

Procession begins promptly – 9:40 a.m