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12-20-2024 | Happy Holidays from the Simmons Center Team!
12-19-2024 | In Slavery's Wake Exhibition Opening and Unfinished Conversations Series Documentary Premiere at the Smithsonian Institution NMAAHC
12-10-2024 | In Slavery's Wake Exhibition Opening at the Smithsonian, Spring Courses and Opportunities
11-25-2024 | Explore Our New RNEH K–12 Curriculum
11-19-2024 | Join us for a lunch talk with RNEH Artist in Residence Sika Foyer
11-08-2024 | Introducing Sika Foyer, our 2024 RNEH Artist in Residence
10-31-2024 | Simmons Center Book Release, Upcoming Events, and more!
10-16-2024 | Don't Miss Our Upcoming October and November Events!
09-30-2024 | October Simmons Center Events, Family Weekend Preview, and More!
09-18-2024 | Fall Events, News, and More!
09-10-2024 | Fall Welcome, Exhibitions, News, Opportunities and More!
08-28-2024 | Summer 2024 Recap & Fall Preview
07-15-2024 | Staff and Exhibition Updates, News, and More
06-19-2024 | Celebrating Juneteenth and Imagining Freedom Anew
06-05-2024 | Spring 2024 Simmons Center Recap and Farewells
05-20-2024 | Commencement Events, Faculty News and more!
05-14-2024 | 2023 Annual Report and Honorary Degree News
04-25-2024 | "Entwined" Exhibition, Final Spring Semester Events, News, and More!
04-18-2024 | Proctorships, News, Events and More!
04-11-2024 | April Events, Proctorships, and More!
04-01-2024 | Spring Events, Mumia Exhibition News, Opportunities and More!
03-12-2024 | News, Upcoming Events, Opportunities and More!
02-29-2024 | Exhibition Opening Reception Tomorrow, Events, and More!
02-15-2024 | New Public Humanities Master's Program, Events, Opportunities, and More!
02-02-2024 | News, Opportunities, and More!

12-22-2023 | Happy Holidays, Fall Recap, and Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Simmons Center
12-01-2023 | News, Opportunities, and More!
11-14-2023 | Spring Courses at Brown, Upcoming Events, Opportunities, and More!
10-27-2023 | In Conversation Symposium, Upcoming Events, Opportunities, and More!
10-10-2023 | Simmons Center Family Weekend, Upcoming Events, Opportunities, and More!
09-25-2023 | Simmons Center Student Opportunities and Upcoming Events
09-13-2023 | Dr. Simmons at Brown, Fall Events, Student Opportunities, and more!
08-30-2023 | Celebratory unveiling of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice
08-22-2023 | Simmons Center Summer 2023 Recap
06-27-2023 | Last Call for Reimagining New England Histories Print Publication
06-19-2023 | Celebrating Juneteenth
05-25-2023 | 2023 Commencement events, announcements & more!
05-18-2023 | Announcements, 2023 Commencement events, opportunities & more
05-16-2023 | Deadline Extended: RNEH Publication call for submissions
05-08-2023 | 2023 Commencement events, opportunities & more
04-25-2023 | Mass Incarceration Lab Live Oral History event & more
04-20-2023 | Conference: Slavery, Democracy, and Racial Violence in the Americas
04-13-2023 | Exhibition closing soon, Book talks, opportunities & more
04-07-2023 | Meet the Simmons Center Friends!
03-31-2023 | Brown University renames Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice
03-28-2023 | Apply Now- Black & Indigenous Summer High School Institute, publication call for submissions!
03-20-2023 | ICA-Miami Seminars with Anthony Bogues, events & more
03-15-2023 | You're Invited - Brown+ Beyond honoring the CSSJ
03-13-2023 | Exhibition Opening | Serving a Plate Back Home: Migration Stories
03-07-2023 | Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail - with Author Dr. Michael Walker
02-28-2023 | What Stories Are Missing From Black History?
02-17-2023 | Share your story- Reimagining New England Histories
02-16-2023 | Research & Postdoctoral fellowships- Apply Now!
02-08-2023 | Cyphering While Black: Facing the Music, Confronting the Culture
01-30-2023 | Film screenings at CSSJ ,'Freedom’s Captives' book talk, herbalism practices workshop & more
01-17-2023 | Reimagining New England Histories: Call for Contributions
01-12-2023 | Reimagining New England Histories

12-21-2022 | Happy Holidays!
12-20-2022 | CSSJ 2022 Annual Report
12-06-2022 | Don't Miss-Free musical performance this Thursday
11-30-2022 | Don't Miss: 10th anniversary exhibition, musical concert & podcast competition
11-23-2022 | On Being Enslaved' Concert, TILL Film Screening & more
11-16-2022 | Join Us!- Musical Performance by Marian Anderson String Quartet
10-31-2022 | Congrats to Paul E. Lovejoy Prize winner Zach Sell
10-12-2022 | Performance - the cosmic matter of Black lives, news & events
10-03-2022 | Paid student opportunities, upcoming events this fall & more
09-22-2022 | Join us tonight!- CSSJ retrospective exhibition opening
09-15-2022 | Meet CSSJ's new fellows, retrospective exhibition & more
09-08-2022 | You're invited! CSSJ retrospective exhibition opening
08-29-2022 | The Reparations Debate
08-15-2022 | Black and Indigenous High School Summer Institute
07-01-2022 | Deadline approaching- Postdoctoral Fellow in Slavery and the Public Humanities
06-20-2022 | Commemorating Juneteenth
06-13-2022 | Abrams Foundation grant, Black Sonic, upcoming events
06-02-2022 | Coming up: Chiefs of the Sea, opportunities, announcements & more
05-26-2022 | Congratulations class of 2022!
05-18-2022 | CSSJ commencement weekend events
05-04-2022 | Join us tomorrow!- CSSJ 2022 Reparations Conference
04-28-2022 | Event Postponed- Chiefs of the Sea: The Accounts of Charles Lansing and Paul Cuffe, Jr., 1806-1839
04-25-2022 | Registration Open- CSSJ 2022 Reparations Conference
04-20-2022 | Save the date- CSSJ Reparations Conference
04-12-2022 | Join our team!
04-04-2022 | Announcements, upcoming events, & more
03-23-2022 | CSSJ Fellow Presentations, upcoming events & more
03-16-2022 | Join us- Mellon Sawyer Seminar
03-15-2022 | Event Postponed- Black Bodies, White Gold: Visualizing Value, Materializing Race in the Atlantic World
03-08-2022 | Alejandro de la Fuente: Race, Culture, Mobilization, and Repression in Contemporary Cuba
03-01-2022 | Deadline approaching- Undergraduate Summer Institute
02-24-2022 | Sankofa' Film Screening, Opportunities at CSSJ
02-17-2022 | Important event update
02-16-2022 | Upcoming Events
02-10-2022 | Upcoming Events
02-03-2022 | Upcoming Events
01-26-2022 | Upcoming Events
01-14-2022 | Announcing the Reimagining New England Histories Summer Institutes
01-12-2022 | Upcoming event and JCB/CSSJ Postdoc Opening

12-23-2020 | Happy Holidays from the CSSJ
12-18-2020 | The Year in Review: 2020 CSSJ Annual Report
12-11-2020 | Now Accepting Applications: CSSJ/Watson Postdoctoral Research Associate
12-04-2020 | Upcoming: Speculative Black Futures Event + Exhibition Launch
11-20-2020 | Save the Date: Speculative Black Futures
11-13-2020 | CSSJ Upcoming Events: The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence
11-06-2020 | CSSJ Upcoming Events: Reckoning with Police Violence
10-30-2020 | Save the Date: Reckoning with Police Violence
10-23-2020 | CSSJ Upcoming Events: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
10-16-2020 | Upcoming CSSJ Events: Historical Context of the 2006 Report of Brown University's Steering Committee on Slavery & Justice
10-09-2020 | Upcoming Event: This is America: Voter Suppression
10-02-2020 | CSSJ Upcoming Events: October 2020
09-28-2020 | Upcoming event: Defunding the Police
09-23-2020 | Upcoming event: Defunding the Police: Organizing Against the Carceral State in Providence
09-15-2020 | Upcoming CSSJ Event: Race, Justice and Health Disparities: Barriers to Equality & Citizenship
09-04-2020 | CSSJ Welcome Back
08-28-2020 | Upcoming CSSJ Event: Race, Justice and Health Disparities: Barriers to Equality & Citizenship
08-24-2020 | Digital Release: Racial Slavery in the Americas: Resistance, Freedom and Legacies
08-03-2020 | Upcoming Event: Black Critique-Black Lives Matter, Breath and Human Life
07-31-2020 | Join Us for a Matching Gift Opportunity
07-24-2020 | CSSJ's Digital Slavery & Legacy Walking Tour Series | Stop 5: Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice
07-17-2020 | CSSJ's Digital Slavery & Legacy Walking Tour Series | Stop 4: Page-Robinson Hall
07-13-2020 | Upcoming event: Challenges to Global Anti-Black Racism
07-10-2020 | CSSJ's Digital Slavery & Legacy Walking Tour Series | Stop 3: Slavery Memorial
07-03-2020 | CSSJ Upcoming Event: Challenges to Global Anti-Black Racism
06-25-2020 | Upcoming CSSJ Event: Breaking the Thin Blue Line of Bigotry: How Outcries for Police Reform have led to Calls for Abolition
06-19-2020 | CSSJ June 19, 2020: Juneteenth
06-08-2020 | Upcoming CSSJ Event: Black Lives, Structural Violence, Protest and Change
06-05-2020 | Dreams Deferred in Another Country
05-29-2020 | CSSJ's Digital Slavery & Legacy Walking Tour Series | Stop 2: University Hall
05-22-2020 | CSSJ's Digital Slavery & Legacy Walking Tour Series | Stop 1: Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle
05-15-2020 | Was Ahmaud Arbery Lynched and Why Does it Matter?
05-08-2020 | Unfinished Business
05-01-2020 | Entangled Legacies
04-30-2020 | Racism and covid-19 in Rhode Island
04-24-2020 | Memorialization, History, and Memory
04-17-2020 | Uncovering the Institution
04-10-2020 | CRMI Expansion
04-03-2020 | Education as Resistance
03-27-2020 | Rooted
03-20-2020 | Lift Every Voice and Sing
03-11-2020 | Update for CSSJ Spring 2020 Events
03-06-2020 | Coming Up at the CSSJ
02-28-2020 | Coming Up at the CSSJ
02-21-2020 | Coming Up at the CSSJ
02-14-2020 | Keep up with events at and beyond the CSSJ!
02-07-2020 | Keep up with events at and beyond the CSSJ!
01-31-2020 | Make a gift to CSSJ and have it matched $1-for-$1
01-22-2020 | Keep up with events at and beyond the CSSJ!