This essay was recently published in AfroPiq (Black Power Media) featuring a short meditation on Dr. Athanasopoulos’ newly published monograph Black Iconoclasm.

This recent catalogue essay was recently released by the National Liberty Museum (Philadelphia, PA) in conjunction with Philadelphia Sculptor’s to accompany the exhibition “In Pursuit: Artists’ Perspectives on a Nation”.

Contributors Charles Athanasopoulos, Jeanne Dreskin, Paul Farber, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Naomieh Jovin, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Shannon Mattern, Nicholas Mirzoeff, TK Smith, and Marisa Williamson consider the specters, haunting sensations, and eerie remnants of the past as they relate public art, space, and memory.

In partnership with the Unity Multicultural Education Center, the Zags for Reproductive Justice club is hosting "Appetite for Autonomy," a five-week lunchtime lecture series that started on March 20, with free food provided for students.

The lecture series is divided across Hispanic Heritage Month & Black History Month. The lecture series is co/sponsored by Gonzaga’s Unity Multicultural Education Center, The College of Arts & Sciences, The Department of Communication, & the Puerto Rican Independence Party - WA.

Dr. Athanasopoulos’ “Fanonian Slips: The Rhetorical Function & Field of the White Mask” featured in Western Journal of Communication, has been awarded the National Communication Association Critical and Cultural Studies Division Outstanding Article Award.

The Black and Indigenous Futures Convening brings together artists, scholars, educators, and practitioners to unearth history, examine fault lines, and imagine new and different futures.

Dr. Athanasopoulos has been awarded a Global Engagement Fund grant by Gonzaga University’s International Education Council to travel to Puerto Rico. His research will focus on the legacy of slavery on the island. Using the method of auto/ethnography, Dr. Athanasopoulos will be researching his own family’s history as Afro-Puerto Rican sugar cane plantation laborers in late 19th/early 20th century Aguirre, Salinas, Puerto Rico. This personal research is placed alongside important Puerto Rican histories, monuments, and theories. In doing so, this research project meditates on the prominent cultural discourses of Blanqueamiento (racial whitening) and Mestizaje (racial hybridity) and on-going debates over the Black Lives Matter movement in Puerto Rico. Analyzing these various materials offers a way to examine and wrestle with the enduring legacy of slavery in Puerto Rico.

Roundtable on decolonization efforts by Puerto Rican independentistas.

Public letter, panel, & fundraising effort in the wake of the most recent Hurricane in Puerto Rico.

Read the interview via Black Agenda Report.