International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

A all-day series of campus-wide events to mark UN General Assembly resolution 2142, adopted on Oct. 26, 1966, that proclaimed March 21 as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

NOTE: Join us for Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Mass Atrocity the night before on Thursday, March 20 at 5 p.m.

• Exhibit: Joiri Minaya: Unseeing the Tropics at the Museum
  All Day
  Emily and Joe Lowe Galleries, Shaffer Art Building
• Genocide Prevention Workshop, with Professor Jim Waller
  9 – 10:30 a.m.
  107 Huntington Hall
  This workshop will present an analysis of genocide in the modern world that draws out the lessons to be learned in preventing genocide from ever taking place, preventing further atrocities once genocide has begun, and preventing future atrocities once a society has begun to rebuild after genocide. James Waller is the inaugural Christopher J. Dodd Chair in Human Rights Practice and director of the Dodd Human Rights Impact Programs for the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut.
• Representation Revolution: Black Twitter’s Lasting Impact on Television
  10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
  I3 Center (Newhouse 3 Rm 434)
  Just as Black Twitter demanded social equity through its network, Black Twitter also advocated for a representation revolution in television. Some shows were blocked from airing, some were taken off the air, and others were revived because of the Black social TV network. In the new book Black Social Television: How Black Twitter Changed Television Sherri Williams positions this activism as an extension of Black people’s historic advocacy related to the use of their image, dating back a century to when the NAACP attempted to block screenings of the notoriously racist 1915 film The Birth of a Nation. Williams explains how Black audiences’ use of social media impacted the way television is watched, developed, and produced through digital discourse and activism, primarily on Twitter (now known as X).
• Human Rights Tabling and Open Houses
  1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
  Barner-McDuffie House, Disability Cultural Center, LGBTQ+ Resource Center