Upcoming Events

Sunday, January 22, 2023 -- Sunday, April 30, 2023  (M-F 9am-5pm) https://www.firstpresbyterian.org/event/art-exhibit-john-onye-lockard The founding faculty member of the Department of Afro-American and African Studies at UM, John Onye Lockard had a career that spanned more than a half-century of painting, teaching, mentoring, and exhibiting. On loan from the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County, the exhibit of John Onye Lockard’s work is on view in the Social Hall now through April. Lockard was a powerful and inspiring…

Wednesdays thru Feb 15 America At A Crossroads  Zoom the virtual conversation series with the country’s most renowned names in political analysis, journalism, and politics - America At A Crossroads. Guests include Minxin Pei, Larry Diamond, Russian Amb. Michael McFaul, Rep Adam Schiff, and David Brooks, among others. 8-9 pm ET

Thursday. Register HERE.  Nothing about the cosmos fails to excite the boundless enthusiasm of Neil deGrasse Tyson: the atmosphere’s chemistry, Einstein lensing, dark energy, how galaxies cluster - and even the questions we have yet to pose.. In hundreds of lectures, on television and in podcasts, he radiates the wonderment he felt as a 9-year old kid from the Bronx visiting the Hayden planetarium for the first time; he was so moved by the imprint of the night sky that…

Sunday, January 22, 2023 -- Sunday, April 30, 2023  (M-F 9am-5pm) https://www.firstpresbyterian.org/event/art-exhibit-john-onye-lockard The founding faculty member of the Department of Afro-American and African Studies at UM, John Onye Lockard had a career that spanned more than a half-century of painting, teaching, mentoring, and exhibiting. On loan from the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County, the exhibit of John Onye Lockard’s work is on view in the Social Hall now through April. Lockard was a powerful and inspiring…

Wednesday.   Register HERE.  The Nazis taught that Jews were untermenschen, the Indians taught that the Dalit were “untouchable” and Americans taught that Blacks were congenitally inferior. Such assumptions have defined human history for millennia. In her latest book, Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson dives deep into the pillars that underlie such systems, from divine will to heredity, putting human faces on the power of human rankings. In selecting Caste for her book club, Oprah Winfrey proclaimed it to be the most essential volume…

Sunday, January 22, 2023 -- Sunday, April 30, 2023  (M-F 9am-5pm) https://www.firstpresbyterian.org/event/art-exhibit-john-onye-lockard The founding faculty member of the Department of Afro-American and African Studies at UM, John Onye Lockard had a career that spanned more than a half-century of painting, teaching, mentoring, and exhibiting. On loan from the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County, the exhibit of John Onye Lockard’s work is on view in the Social Hall now through April. Lockard was a powerful and inspiring…

Sunday, January 22, 2023 -- Sunday, April 30, 2023  (M-F 9am-5pm) https://www.firstpresbyterian.org/event/art-exhibit-john-onye-lockard The founding faculty member of the Department of Afro-American and African Studies at UM, John Onye Lockard had a career that spanned more than a half-century of painting, teaching, mentoring, and exhibiting. On loan from the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County, the exhibit of John Onye Lockard’s work is on view in the Social Hall now through April. Lockard was a powerful and inspiring…

Sunday, January 22, 2023 -- Sunday, April 30, 2023  (M-F 9am-5pm) https://www.firstpresbyterian.org/event/art-exhibit-john-onye-lockard The founding faculty member of the Department of Afro-American and African Studies at UM, John Onye Lockard had a career that spanned more than a half-century of painting, teaching, mentoring, and exhibiting. On loan from the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County, the exhibit of John Onye Lockard’s work is on view in the Social Hall now through April. Lockard was a powerful and inspiring…