More than two dozen experts at three events this month will talk about what has become, arguably, the nation's number one topic: Race.

Speakers present on colorblindness, schools as common settings for racial struggles

Soon, some of the nation’s brightest students will learn whether or not they have been accepted for early admission at the country’s most elite universities. Few of these young people, however, are aware of how many of these hallowed institutions of higher learning have troubling aspects to their storied history, including Harvard, Yale, and my alma mater, Brown: Each has ties to the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

From hiring to promotion, structural racism limits opportunities, stretches responsibilities

A plan to open what would be the only museum in the U.S. centred on the trans-Atlantic slave trade would focus on the Episcopal Church's role in its history and the sometimes-buried legacy of slavery in northern states.

Faculty, students, alumni, staff, and President Emerita Ruth Simmons gathered Friday, Oct. 24, 2014, to dedicate the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice and visit its new home at 94 Waterman Street.

Paxson dedicates sculpture as part of 250th anniversary celebration before large audience

Hundreds of snaps rang throughout Salomon 101 in support of speakers’ messages of directly confronting racial tensions during a teach-in Tuesday about the events surrounding last month’s fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white policeman in Ferguson, Missouri.

Deborah Willis, chair of the department of photography and imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University presented the 2014 Debra L. Lee Lecture on Slavery and Justice to a half-filled Smith-Buonano 106, entitled “Visualizing Freedom: Photography and Emancipation.”

Ships of Bondage and the Fight for Freedom examines the global networks involved in the slave trade during the period of European colonial empires. 

“The issue of slavery is anything but in the past,” said Associate Professor of History Seth Rockman at a Commencement forum sponsored by the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice on slavery’s enduring legacy in the United States.

Beyond Sweetness: New Histories of Sugar in the Early Atlantic World at the John Carter Brown Library, October 24-27, 2013

On May 9, 2013, the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justiceopened its inaugural exhibit, Ships of Bondage and the Fight for Freedom at the Center for Public Humanities’ Carriage House Gallery. 

B. Anthony Bogues, the Harmon Family Professor of Africana Studies and director for the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ), is in Europe to give three public lectures and seminars in the coming weeks.

Brown University will bring together community leaders for a forum on "Racial Profiling in Rhode Island" on Wednesday, June 5, 2013, at 6 p.m. in the Rites and Reason Theatre, Churchill House. 

On Thursday, May 9, Brown University's Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) is opening a new exhibit entitled “Ships of Bondage and the Fight for Freedom,” at the John Nicholas Brown Center's Carriage House Gallery on Benefit Street, Providence.

Brown's Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice confronts the university's — and America's — shame

Visiting professor of Africana studies says mentality of slavery is ‘inherent in humanity’

The speakers reflected on the legacy of slavery at the University and the center’s role in promoting justice

The U. of Pittsburgh professor underscored the Amistad Rebellion as crucial in understanding the history of slavery

The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice kicked off its spring event series­ — “Ships of Bondage, Freedom and the Knowledges of the Enslaved” — Wednesday with a screening of the documentary “Traces of the Trade.”

Since its creation this fall, the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice has planned multiple outreach events to begin in the spring. But the center, established to further the study of the transatlantic slave trade, is still developing a mission to guide it past its inaugural year. 

Sons of Providence author Charles Rappleye will discuss what he learned while writing the book, how it changed his thinking about Brown and early New England, and what it means to be an American, then and now.

The John Hay Library presents "Rhode Island Slavery and the University," an exhibition in support of the First Readings 2012 program for the Class of 2016, which focuses on Charles Rappleye's Sons of Providence.

Due to the threat of heavy rain and lightning, Brown University's 249th Opening Convocation met in the Pizzitola Sports Center at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012.

First-year students learned about the University’s connection to the slave trade in this year’s summer reading choice, “Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade and the American Revolution.” The selection came in concurrence with the appointment of Anthony Bogues, professor of Africana studies, as the inaugural director for the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice in May.

Each year, on the Monday before Convocation, incoming freshmen gather with Brown faculty and administration in classrooms throughout campus to engage in “First Readings” seminars, a discussion centered around Brown’s summer reading project for incoming students.

B. Anthony Bogues, the Harmon Family Professor of Africana Studies at BrownUniversity, has been named inaugural director of the University's Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.

The Fund for the Education of the Children of Providence is making grants totaling $50,237 to four Providence schools to enhance literacy learning, promote nonviolence, and purchase performing arts supplies and computers.

At its February meeting, the Corporation of Brown University selected acclaimed American artist Martin Puryear to create a slavery memorial on the University campus.