This is open to students, staff, faculty, and the community. Registration required: bit.ly/BEYONDSURVIVALTOGETHER24. 

The first 40 people who attend will receive a FREE book. 

Dr. Kyle T. Mays (Saginaw Chippewa), is a Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at UCLA. He is a transdisciplinary scholar of urban history and studies, Afro-Indigenous Studies, and contemporary popular culture. He is the author of Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America. His latest book titled, Rethinking the Red Power Movement (2024) examines Red Power ideology with a focus on its many forms of solidarity with African Americans, the role of gender in shaping the movement, its international expansion, and its current meaning in contemporary activism.

The Red Power Movement is often considered the apex of Indigenous activism in the twentieth century. This study makes the case that Red Power never died—and neither did Indigenous activism. Instead, it shows how Indigenous peoples found many ways to push forward Indigenous sovereignty and continue to call on the United States to value Indigenous possibilities for justice, freedom, and power.