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THE BATTLE OF THE BLACK MIND

The LA Mayor's Mansion

September 19, 2025

6:00PM - 8:00PM

BLACKAKADEMICS BY LEGACY LIT

Virtual Event

September 22, 2025

6:30PM

W.E.B DUBOIS SYMPOSIUM 2025

Hammonds House Museum

September 25, 2025

1:00PM - 3:00PM

THE TENTH SALON

Hammonds House Museum

September 28, 2025

1:00PM - 3:00PM

22ND SIX BRIDGES BOOK FESTIVAL

Central Arkansas Library System with Eve L. Ewing

October 1, 2025

6:30PM

LUNCH & LEARN

Virtual Event

October 8, 2025

10:00AM - 11:00AM

IDEAS FESTIVAL

Oxford College of Emory University

October 18, 2025

11:00AM

WISCONSIN BOOK FESTIVAL

Madison Public Library

October 25, 2025

10:30AM

DU BOIS CENTER LECTURE

UMASS

October 31, 2025

10:30AM

THE BATTLE OF THE BLACK MIND

Princeton University

November 6, 2025

7:00PM - 8:00PM

THE BATTLE OF THE BLACK MIND CONVERSATION

Baldwin & Co Bookstore with Charly Palmer

November 13, 2025

6:30PM

UPCOMING SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

FEATURED VIDEOS

Emerging Immigration Scholars Conference

A Conversation on Refugee Flows and Human Rights

February 2019

Emerging Immigration Scholars Conference

A Conversation on Refugee Flows and Human Rights

February 2019

The Sociology of W.E.B. DuBois 

by Karida Brown and Jose Itzigsohn 

May 23, 2021

Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line

The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois

May 20, 2020

Du Boisian Scholar Network

June 1, 2019

Archiving in Black

Karida Brown "Archiving in Black: Lessons from EKAAMP"

April 2, 2019

Emerging Immigration Scholars Conference

A Conversation on Refugee Flows and Human Rights

February 2019

PAST EVENTS

2025

  • New Brownies Book Village Preservation February 26th, Africana Arts & Humanities Festival March 15th, the Missouri Historical Society October 2-3

  • The Battle for the Black Mind @ Kennesaw State University February 4, Brown University March 19th

2024

  • New Brownies Book at Milwaukee Public Library January 10th, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture February 12th, Virginia Festival of the Book March 23, Charlottesville Chapter of The Links Incorporated 21st annual Festival of The Book Brunch March 24th, New Brownies at The Gathering Spot ATL November 19th 

  • The Battle for the Black Mind at Marshall University April 5th

  • African Americans in the Arts at Atlanta Girl School February 26th

  • DEI in a Divided America: Where Do We Go From Here? At Union Chapel Education and Cultural Institute August 14th 

  • 61st commemoration of W.E.B. Du Bois Keynote August 27th

2021

  • The Sociology of W.E.B. DuBois by Karida Brown and Jose Itzigsohn, May 23, 2021

2020

  • Los Angeles Dodgers: Black Action Network, “Ubuntu Speaker Series”

  • Appalachian Studies Association Conference (Lexington, KY) | Plenary Forum: “The Surprise of Appalachia” (March) canceled due to Covid-19

  • The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois: Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line, May 20, 2020

2019

  • Emerging Immigration Scholars Conference: A Conversation on Refugee Flows and Human Rights, February 2019 

  • Karida Brown "Archiving in Black: Lessons from EKAAMP", April 2, 2019

  • Du Boisian Scholar Network, June 1, 2019

2018

The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois: Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line

  • Yale University (March, 2019)

  • Brown University (April, 2020) canceled due to Covid-19

  • Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College (April, 2020) canceled due to Covid-19

  • Binghamton University (October, 2020)

  • British Sociological Association (November, 2020)

  • University of Sweden (April 2021)

  • University of Chicago (May 2021)

2017

The Souls of Sociology: Articulating a Du Boisian Sociology, June 29, 2017 

 

Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia

  • UC Berkeley (October, 2017)

  • Duke University (April, 2018)

  • UCLA Author Meets Critics: Cecilia Menjivar, UCLA and Chris Muller, UC Berkeley (October, 2018)

  • Southern Festival of Books (October, 2018)

  • Columbia University (October, 2018)

  • Princeton University (October, 2018)

  • University of Wisconsin, Madison (October 2018)

  • University of Mississippi, Oxford (March 2019)

  • Sewanee: The University of the South (March 2019)

  • University of Cincinnati (March 2019)

  • UC Berkeley, Africana Studies (April 2019)

  • Washington University, St. Louis (April 2019)

  • University of Stockholm, Sweden (March 2020) canceled due to Covid-19

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