Campus Humanities Calendar

Join us for a screening of Kahlil Joseph's feature debut—a mix of archival footage, narrative, and Black intellectual thought spanning voices like W. E. B. Du Bois, Saidiya Hartman, Fred Moten, and artistic luminaries like Arthur Jafa and Garrett Bradley.

Attend a screening of the newly-released documentary film, Against the Current at Spurlock Museum on Wednesday, February 11, 2026 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. In the film Kyla, a high school senior and community organizer in Chicago, journeys across the state of Illinois in search of ways that Black people have resisted oppression across time.

Ingrid Sinclair’s feature-length film Flame (1986) tells the story of two young African women who join the liberation struggle for Zimbabwe in the 1970s. The film follows Flame and Liberty as they are faced with sexual harassment by male freedom fighters and later, by the patriarchy of the newly liberated Zimbabwe.