Cultural Front: African American Public Programming, 2010

Black Studies book sale, 2011

What a decade of programming. Here’s a list of the programming that I did between 2010 and 2019.

[Related: Reflections on Public Programming, 2010 – 2019]

2010
• February 19: The African American Literary Showcase at Woodland Elementary School (Edwardsville, IL)
• March 28: The Malcolm X Mixtape
• March 31: The African American Literary Showcase
• April 8, 2010 The Black Studies Mixtape at the University of Central Missouri
• August 26: Haley Scholars Opening
• September 1: 14 Ways of Thinking about NYC
• September 2: 14 Ways of Thinking about NYC

• September 9: Politically Inspiring Black Women
• September 9: Black women poets exhibit
• September 13: Lyrical Skills & Black Consciousness
• September 15: Politically Inspiring Black Women
• September 21: Haley Scholars Public Thinking Event
• September 27 – Oct. 29: Black Poetry Mixed Media Exhibit
• September 28: Promise of Poetry Project
• September 29: Lyrical Skills & Black Consciousness
• October 4: Underground Freedom Galleries
• October 4: Audio exhibit of black poetry
• October 5 and 7: Underground Freedom Galleries
• October 12: 14 Ways of Thinking about Chicago
• October 12: Harriet Tubman Group Gathering
• October 14: Audio-visual exhibit: Amiri Baraka
• October 18: Malcolm X Mixtape
• October 19: Malcolm X Mixtape
• October 20: Haley Scholars Public Thinking Event
• October 26: Style, politics, and black women @ SIUE
• October 27: Style, politics, and black women @ SIUE
• November 4: Remixing Poetry
• November 4: Richard Wright Book covers exhibit
• November 4: Reviewing Contemporary African American Poetry
• November 5: Black Poetry Mixed Media Project Woodland Elementary
• November 9: Ways of Thinking about East St. Louis
• November 10: Race, Diversity, and Disparity
• November 11: Race, Diversity, and Disparity
• November 15: Black Poetry Mixed Media Project SIUE/East St. Louis Charter School
• November 17 and 18: Race and Representation Series featuring poems by Adrian Matejka
• November 18: Haley Scholars Public Thinking Event
• November 30: Race and Representation Series: Featuring hand fan collection by Candice Love Jackson
• November 30: Audio-visual exhibit: Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez
• December 7: Boondocks Exhibit
• December 8: The Intellectual Sagas of Black Men
• December 9: Mixed Media Poetry Exhibit
• December 13: Redmond Room Review
• December 14: Black Studies Review

2011
• February 8: Black Poetry Mixed Media Project (St. Louis Community College)
• February 9: 10 Mixed Media Poetry Project (William Woods University)

• September 6: 10 Key African American Poems: Audio Exhibit
• September 13: Public Thinking Event
• September 23: Poetry as a Mixed Media Enterprise (Combs Elementary School. St. Louis County)
• October 11: Public Thinking Event
• October 18: Chicago exhibit
• October 17 – 27: Black Verse: Notations on African American Poetry and Knowledge
• November 9: Public Thinking Event
• December 6: Public Thinking Event: Educational environments, diversity, and shifting demographics
• December 7: Public Thinking Event: Mind-work

2012
• January 24: Key African American Poems
• January 26: Study Session (Langston Hughes)
• February 1: Haley Scholars Event
• February 2: Discussions of Black Poetry
• February 2: The Golden Age of Hip Hop
• February 9: Inspirational Black Women Poets
• February 10: Mixed Media exhibit (Columbus Elementary School)
• February 14: Study Session (Black Women Poets)
• February 15: Haley Scholars Event
• February 16: Malcolm X Mixtape & Book Sale
• February 23: Study Session (Black Women Poets)

• February 28: Sisters Rocking Naturals @ SIUE
• February 29: Sisters Rocking Naturals @ SIUE
March 2: Mixed Media exhibit (Jamaa Learning Center, St. Louis, MO)
• March 14: Haley Scholars Event
• March 21: Haley Scholars Event
• March 22: Mixed Media Session: Amiri Baraka
• April 3 and 4: Playing in the Dark: An Exhibit
• April 4: Haley Scholars Event
April 9: Mixed Media Poetry Exhibit (Woodland Elementary)
• April 17: Black Studies Book Fair
• April 18: Haley Scholars Event
• April 19: Black Studies Book Fair
• April 28: Mixed Media Poetry Exhibit (Jackson, TN)
• August 21: Persistence Expo
• Aug. 22: Graduate Student Reception
•Aug. 23: Undergraduate Reception
• September 6: Politically inspiring black women
• September 11: 7 key African American poems
• September 12: 7 key African American poems
• September 12: Grad. Student Presentation
• September 18: Haley Public Thinking Event
• September 19: Writing about Af-Am Arts in Public

• September 20: Playing in the dark
• September 24 and 25: Browsing Session
• October 1: Underground Freedom galleries (Pt. 1)
• October 2: Haley Public Thinking Event
• October 2 and 3: Underground Freedom galleries (Pt. 1)
• October 11: Structural factors & black men (grassroots series)
• October 16: Mixed Media Poetry Exhibit
• October 22: Browsing Session
• October 23: Haley Public Thinking Event
• October 24: Grad. Student Presentation
• October 25: Style, politics & the souls of black folks
• November 6: Haley Public Thinking Event
• November 6: Malcolm X Mixtape
• November 7: Malcolm X Mixtape
• November 15: Mixed Media Poetry Exhibit
• November 27: Haley Public Thinking Event
• November 29: Event for Eugene B. Redmond
• December 3 and 4: Education & Ideas Festival (displays)
• December 4: Haley Public Thinking Event
• December 4: Grad school informational
• December 5: Education & Ideas Festival (book sale)

2013
• January 8: Haley Scholars Event
• January 16 and 17: Key African American Poems
• January 22: Haley Scholars Event
• January 23and 24: Golden Age of Hip Hop
• February 7: Haley Scholars Event
• February 7: Images (Boondocks)
• February 20 and 21: Jay-Z

• February 25: Sisters Rocking Naturals @ SIUE
• February 26: Haley Scholars Event
• February 26: Sisters Rocking Naturals @ SIUE
• March 19: Haley Scholars Event
• March 20 and 21: L-Boogie Listening Session
• April 4: Haley Scholars Event
• April 10 and 11: Conscious Rap Listening Session
• April 22: Black Studies closing event
• September 17: Public Thinking Event
• October 1: Public Thinking Event
• October 8: Public Thinking Event
• November 5: Public Thinking Event
• November 19: Public Thinking Event

2014
• January 14: Seeing yourself in popular culture and dream gigs

• February 4: Public Thinking Event

• September 2: Public Thinking Event

• September 10: African American Literary Showcase

• September 11: Poetry Listening Session
• September 17: Public Thinking Event: East St. Louis

• September 25: The Big Smoke exhibit
• September 30: Public Thinking Event - Maya Angelou exhibit
• October 1: Tribute to Maya Angelou: Photographs from the EBR Collection
• October 14: Public Thinking Event - Bodies Matter Exhibit

• October 16: Chess & GRIT

• October 20: Gina Washington, Leadership, Inspiration & Collegiate Black Women
• October 28: Public Thinking Event: East St. Louis
• October 30: The Big Smoke exhibit
• November 4: Public Thinking Event
• November 6: East St. Louis Vision Boards activity
• November 10: Arts activities at Venice Elementary School
• November 13: The Big Smoke exhibit
• November 18: A Gathering of Black Women Artists

• November 19: Images from "A Gathering of Black Women Artists" Day 2

2015
• January 29: Escape Artists and the East St. Louis Charter High School
• February 10: Opening passages exhibit
• February 11: Imagining increased opportunities for African American students
• February 22: Public Thinking Event: Survey on technology
• February 26: The Black Book Exhibit

• March 3: Smarter Than You Think Exhibit
• March 5: Toni Morrison Exhibit
• March 24: Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House photo exhibit
• March 26: Remixing Poetry, Pt. 2 at the SIUE/East St. Louis Charter High School
• March 31: EBR Collection audio exhibit
• April 7: Caption This Activity: Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House
• April 13 – 15: Language Arts and Leadership Conference
• April 23: Exhibit on Comic Strips and Illustrations
• April 28: Poetry commentary exhibit
• September 2: Vision board activity: The East St. Louis Charter High School
• September 9: Listening session activity at the East St. Louis Charter High School
• September 9: Public Thinking Event: Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House
• September 16: Listening session activity at the East St. Louis Charter High School
• September 22: Listening session activity with ENG 111 students at Lovejoy Library
• September 23: The Malcolm X Mixtape at the East St. Louis Charter High School
• September 23: Public Thinking Event: Smarter Than You Think
• September 30: Here and There at the East St. Louis Charter High School
• October 6: Public Thinking Event: a focus on student demographics
• October 7: Remixing poetry at the East St. Louis Charter High School
• October 14: Remixing Allison Joseph's "Thirty Lines" Poem at the East St. Louis Charter High School
• October 31: Remixing Kelly Norman Ellis's "Raised by Women"
• November 3: Public Thinking Event: Collaborative Intelligence
• November 3: Visiting the EBR Learning Center
• November 11: Remixing "Jetpacks & the Spivey" story
• November 12: Cindy Lyles gives opening reading at the Eugene B. Redmond Learning Center
• November 12: Covering Black Panther in the EBR Learning Center
• November 17: Gina Washington meets with Collegiate Black Women
• November 17: Photographs from Dear SIUE from BSU event
• November 18: Bodies Matter 2015 event
• December 8: Public Thinking Event -- Scholarly Culture

2016
• February 2: “I own my own masters”: An exhibit on slavery references in rap music
• February 3: Public Thinking Event: The Great Migration
• February 11: The Frederick Douglass Books -- Scenes from the exhibit
• February 11: Students Visiting the EBR Learning Center

• February 15: Reception at the Redmond Center

• February 16: Students Visiting the EBR Learning Center
• February 16: Scenes from the Octavia Butler and Toni Morrison exhibit -- The Butler exhibit

• February 17: The Natural Hair Movement: An Exhibit -- Scenes from the Natural Hair Movement exhibit

• February 23: Toni Morrison: Beyond Fiction

• February 25: Digital East St. Louis -- Scenes from the exhibit -- flyer

• March 16: Public Thinking event: perception of defects