The Smith Business Academy is an organization created to serve as an inclusive community for Black and Latinx men. Our mission is to empower every student in our multi-ethnic and diverse community to be men of distinction academically, socially, and professionally — so that they may ultimately serve as leaders within the academy at Smith and within the community at large.

Join Victor Mullins, associate dean of undergraduate programs and diversity officer, and Jeanette Snider, associate director of undergraduate programs, in an interactive, engaging and timely book club. Divided into the seven sections of A Promised Land by former President Barack Obama, we will meet throughout the Spring 2021 semester to discuss the Obama presidency in today's context. Join Smith faculty, staff, students and alumni as we take this journey together!

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Working in partnership with Victor Mullins, Jeanette Snider and the undergraduate program, the revived Black Business Association is now providing channels of opportunity for all UMD black undergraduate students interested in pursuing business. Through events, academic programming, guest lectures, service projects, trips, and social events, BBA will educate, empower, and develop our members to be ready for the future of work. Just as important, we aim to unify African Americans and all those with African lineage. We're the new and improved BBA. And we're on a mission. Join us.

Join the Center for Literary & Comparative Studies for David F. Green, Jr. (Howard University) in conversation with Khirsten L. Scott (University of Pittsburgh) about Green’s published essays and instructional reader, as well as their own current work, focusing on Black discourse and rhetorics as modes of humanistic inquiry. Moderated by Dennis Winston (University of Maryland). Registration opens two weeks in advance of the event.

Join the African American History and Culture Museum for a conversation with Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire. Kendi and Blain have assembled 90 extraordinary writers to document the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present. Entitled Four Hundred Souls, each contributor writes about a five-year period of 400 years of American history using essays, short stories, personal vignettes, and fiery polemics.

We would like to welcome new members to our organization for the spring semester! We are actively recruiting a new cohort. Our vision is to create a fearlessly inclusive community for LGBTQ+ business students in Smith and beyond.

Venmo reparations, #BlackLivesMatter yard signs, solidarity statements and black squares. The past few months have been full of everyday people grappling with and fumbling through the long overdue conversation on racism in our country, much of this conversation revolving around “anti-Blackness.” But what does it mean to understand how anti-Blackness works systemically? What does anti-Blackness look like beyond slavery and police brutality and why does it continue to persist? What role does the university play in breaking the cycle of anti-Black ideologies and practices?

UMD's Nyumburu Cultural Center presents a celebration of Black history with guest speaker Kmt Shockley, professor at Howard University's School of Education. For more information, contact carswell@umd.edu.

Join the Association of American Universities (AAU) for this conversation, part of their speaker series on fostering equitable environments at research universities. SEA Change is an initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to support institutional transformation in colleges and universities so that diversity, equity and inclusion in STEMM are normative.

David Mussington will moderate a session with Donna Brazile focusing on the Black vote and its impact on partisan politics. Mussington will also examine Brazile's extensive history in political strategy and her legacy as the only African American to manage a major presidential campaign. In addition, we will discuss the election of Vice President Kamala Harris and the future and the rise of women of color in politics.