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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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.
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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.
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Events
2:30–5:30 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 the UO's Multicultural Academic Counselor and Black/African American Retention Specialist from the Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence (CMAE)
5:15–6:45 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 representation. Her analysis of politics and elections has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, Politico, The Guardian, Vox, The Los Angeles Times, NBC News, The 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.
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).