Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL)

Today is Rice University's 24 Hour Challenge! A one-day fundraising event to support departments and initiatives like CERCLs Fund for Racial Justice Teaching and Programming.

Please help us to support: programs like MUSE: Musicians United for Social Equality; courses like Journey Towards Justice: Black Liberation & the Civil Rights Movement; and the creative engagements of CERCLs Artist-in-Residence Program.

Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL) Join me in supporting Rice University and make a gift to the 24-Hour Challenge!

There's still time to visit the “Straight Flexin’, No Plexin’ ” Exhibit, a collaboration between the Houston Public Library, the arts and education organization CCM Foundation and two organizations within Rice University, CERCL and the Fondren Library. Texas Monthly describes the exhibit on view at the Hiram Clarke Multi-Service Center, inside the Vinson Neighborhood Library. Extended through July 26!

Artifacts From Hip-hop History Are on Display in Houston The “Straight Flexin’, No Plexin” exhibit demonstrates how the city and the culture became inextricably linked.

Today, Houston is one of the most racially diverse cities in the United States. At the same time, it remains one of the most starkly segregated cities. In his book, "Houston and the Permanence of Segregation: An Afropessimist Approach to Urban History," David Ponton III demonstrates how and why segregation has become a permanent feature in our cities and offers powerful tools for imagining the world otherwise.

David Ponton Ill is an assistant professor in the School of
Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida.

April 19 @ 6:30 PM @ Brazos Bookstore
More info & Purchase books: https://www.brazosbookstore.com/event/store-david-ponton-iii-houston-and-permanence-segregation