Lyllye Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center

Lyllye Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center

Black Cultural Center Scholarships

Award allocations are based on academic classification, but range from $2,500–$7,000; available for incoming first-year students through graduate and law students.

Deadline: September 5, 2024, at 11:59 p.m.

*We are currently raising additional funds to award this scholarship for future academic years.

Donate: Advancing the Mission of the Black Cultural Center

Lyllye Reynolds-Parker
Black Cultural Center

1870 East 15th Avenue
Eugene, OR 97403

ACADEMIC YEAR HOURS
Monday–Thursday: 9:30 a.m.–6:45 p.m.
Friday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Weekends: Closed

SUMMER HOURS
Will vary

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If you are interested in staying up to date about what’s going on with the BCC, please provide your name and email using our online form to be added to our mailing list.


Collaboration and Advertisements?

We invite the UO campus and greater Oregon community to advertise programs, events, and job opportunities via the Shades of Black Newsletter and BCC social media.


BCC Space Reservations

Looking to host your next meeting, campus visit, or other event? Submit a request at least 72 hours in advance. We are not accepting reservations for summer 2024. All reservations for the 2024–2025 academic year will not be reviewed until September 9, 2024. Weekend reservations are not available at this time.

Our Mission, Our Legacy

The Lyllye Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center is the engine for Black students’ academic success at the University of Oregon. The BCC is a welcoming and supportive space that helps Black students harness the resources necessary to navigate their social, cultural, and academic experience. By investing in the success of Black students, the BCC enhances the cultural and social development of the entire University of Oregon community.


Black Cultural Center Opening from University of Oregon on Vimeo.

Aris Hall, PhD
Program Director, Lyllye Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center

Events

Oct 15
Cookies & Career @ Super Soul Tuesday 2:30 p.m.

Get drop-in support for resumes, cover letters, mock interviews & more  support from staff across different programs in academia here on campus like  Darius Redrick...
Cookies & Career @ Super Soul Tuesday
October 15
2:30–5:30 p.m.
Lyllye Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center

Get drop-in support for resumes, cover letters, mock interviews & more  support from staff across different programs in academia here on campus like  Darius Redrick the UO's Multicultural Academic Counselor and Black/African American Retention Specialist from the Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence (CMAE)

Oct 29
The Future of Multiracial Democracy 5:15 p.m.

Featuring Sara Sadhwani, assistant professor of politics at Pomona College. Sadhwani specializes in Asian American and Latino voting behavior, elections, interest groups and...
The Future of Multiracial Democracy
October 29
5:15–6:45 p.m.
Knight Law Center 175

Featuring Sara Sadhwani, assistant professor of politics at Pomona College. Sadhwani specializes in Asian American and Latino voting behavior, elections, interest groups and representation. Her analysis of politics and elections has been featured in The Washington PostThe New York TimesCNNNPRBloombergPoliticoThe GuardianVoxThe Los Angeles TimesNBC NewsThe HuffPost and many more. In a voting rights case before the California Supreme Court, she coauthored an amicus brief that summarizes empirical research on the benefits of maximizing the voting strength of historically excluded communities.

Mar 4
O’Fallon Lecture: Candace Bond-Theriault 4:00 p.m.

Presented by the Oregon Humanities Center Candace Bond-Theriault, JD, LLM (she/her/hers) is a Black queer feminist lawyer, professor, writer, mother, and social justice advocate...
O’Fallon Lecture: Candace Bond-Theriault
March 4
4:00 p.m.

Presented by the Oregon Humanities Center

Candace Bond-Theriault, JD, LLM (she/her/hers) is a Black queer feminist lawyer, professor, writer, mother, and social justice advocate working at the intersections of law, policy, reproductive health rights, racial justice, LGBTQIA+ liberation, economic justice, and democracy reform. She is Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Howard University, and Associate Director for Movement Building at Dēmos: a think tank for the Racial Justice Movement. Bond-Theriault sits on the SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW! Board of Directors, the ReproAction Advisory Council, and is an abortion and contraception context expert for Our Bodies Ourselves Today (Suffolk University). Her writing has been published in The Nation, SELF magazine, Ms. Magazine, Colorlines, the Root, Blavity, Rewire, the Advocate, the Grio, and the Huffington Post. She is the author of Queering Reproductive Justice: an Invitation (Stanford University Press).