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Jimmy
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesNew Releases! In November 1948, James Baldwin left New York and, thanks to a fellowship grant, relocated to Paris. The 24-year-old writer would spend most of the next decade there, escaping American racism and his own social alienation, ensconcing himself …
Lyrical Sanctuary Featuring Derrick Harriell
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesDerrick Harriell is the Interim Director of the Black Student Cultural Center and Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His previous collections of poems include Stripper in Wonderland, Come Kingdom, Cotton, and Ropes, winner of the 2014 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Book Award. His short story, “There’s a Riot Goin’ On,” was the recipient of the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award. He holds an MFA from Chicago State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His forthcoming coauthored book with celebrated rapper 2 Chainz, The Voice in My Head is God, will be published in March 2026.
With Peter Bradley
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesDocumentary When filmmaker Alex Rappoport met then-79-year-old abstract artist Peter Bradley in early 2020, Bradley hadn't sold many paintings or had a major show in over four decades - yet he still painted every day in a shipping-container studio heated …
The 29th Annual Festival of Films in French
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesFilm Festival // Free For Everyone! The Festival of Films in French returns this February with an array of contemporary and classic fiction, animation and documentary films that attend to their very form and explore notions of care, restoration and …
Distinguished Lecture Series Presents: Angela Davis
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesUWM Campus Program // Free For Everyone! Join us for an evening with Professor Angela Davis—scholar, activist, writer, and one of the most influential voices in the global struggle for justice. Her work examines the intersections of race, gender, and …
Distinguished Lecture Series Presents: Angela Davis
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesJoin us for an evening with Professor Angela Davis—scholar, activist, writer, and one of the most influential voices in the global struggle for justice. Her work examines the intersections of race, gender, and class, with a particular focus on prisons, policing, and abolition. Author of numerous groundbreaking books, including Angela Davis: An Autobiography, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, and co-author of Abolition.Feminism.Now., Professor Davis continues to challenge us to imagine new futures beyond the prison industrial complex. This special event will feature a moderated conversation with Dr. Derrick Harriel, offering powerful dialogue and reflection on building a more just world.
Portrait of Jason
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesDocumentary On December 2, 1966, director Shirley Clarke and a miniscule film crew gathered in her apartment at the Hotel Chelsea. Bestowed for twelve hours with the one-and-only Jason Holliday, Clarke confronted the iconic performer about his good times and …
Drylongso
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesA lost treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith’s Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/ romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying—indeed, “becoming …
Babylon
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesUK Classics Franco Rosso's incendiary Babylon had its world premiere at Cannes in 1980 but went unreleased in the U.S. for "being too controversial, and likely to incite racial tension" (Vivien Goldman, Time Out). Raw and smoldering, it follows a …
Soulemayne’s Story
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesNew Releases Racing through the streets of Paris making food deliveries on his bicycle, Guinean immigrant Souleymane is struggling to stay afloat. In two days, he has to report for an asylum application interview, where he must plead his case …
Compensation
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesNew Restoration A landmark of independent cinema, Compensation is Zeinabu irene Davis’s moving, ambitious portrait of the struggles of Deaf African Americans and the complexities of loving relationships at the bookends of the twentieth century. In extraordinary dual performances, Michelle …
The Annihilation of Fish
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesNew Restoration In The Annihilation of Fish, Lynn Redgrave plays Poinsettia, a former housewife with an imagined lover in the form of 19th-century composer Giacomo Puccini. She moves into a Los Angeles boarding house with an energetic landlady where she …