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

Get Connected

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

Nov 21
Steps to Black Cinema 5:15 p.m.

Join the Black Cultural Center for a night to head to the Broadway Metro Theater and enjoy the Iconic film, The Wiz (1978). Please meet at the Broadway Metro at 5:15pm...
Steps to Black Cinema
November 21
5:15–8:00 p.m.
Broadway Metro Theater

Join the Black Cultural Center for a night to head to the Broadway Metro Theater and enjoy the Iconic film, The Wiz (1978). Please meet at the Broadway Metro at 5:15pm and the movie will start at 5:30pm. We have 20 spaces available so click the link here or head to our instagram page to sign up and get info @lrpbccuo.  

Nov 27
Let’s Talk – Wednesdays 2PM-4PM (BCC/Zoom) 2:00 p.m.

Meet with Counseling Services Cecile Gadson, who specializes in working with Black and African American students, at the Black Cultural Center. Let’s Talk is a service...
Let’s Talk – Wednesdays 2PM-4PM (BCC/Zoom)
October 16–December 11
2:00–4:00 p.m.

Meet with Counseling Services Cecile Gadson, who specializes in working with Black and African American students, at the Black Cultural Center.

Let’s Talk is a service that provides easy access to free, informal, and confidential one-on-one consultation with a Counseling Services staff member. See our website for six additional Let’s Talk days/times offered throughout the week.

Let’s Talk is especially helpful for students who:

Have a specific concern and would like to consult with someone about it. Would like on-the-spot consultation rather than ongoing counseling. Would like to consult with a CS staff member about what actual therapy looks like. Would like to meet with one of our CS identity-based specialists. Have a concern about a friend or family member and would like some ideas about what to do.

 

How does Let’s Talk work?

Let’s Talk will be offered via Zoom and/or in satellite locations across campus. As a drop-in service, there is no need to schedule an appointment and no paperwork to be completed. Students are seen individually on a first-come, first-served basis at the times listed below. There may be a wait in the Zoom waiting room if the Let’s Talk staff member is meeting with another student. Please wait and we will be with you as soon as we can. Let’s Talk appointments are brief (usually between 15-30 minutes) and are meant to be used on an as-needed basis.

Dec 4
Let’s Talk – Wednesdays 2PM-4PM (BCC/Zoom) 2:00 p.m.

Meet with Counseling Services Cecile Gadson, who specializes in working with Black and African American students, at the Black Cultural Center. Let’s Talk is a service...
Let’s Talk – Wednesdays 2PM-4PM (BCC/Zoom)
October 16–December 11
2:00–4:00 p.m.

Meet with Counseling Services Cecile Gadson, who specializes in working with Black and African American students, at the Black Cultural Center.

Let’s Talk is a service that provides easy access to free, informal, and confidential one-on-one consultation with a Counseling Services staff member. See our website for six additional Let’s Talk days/times offered throughout the week.

Let’s Talk is especially helpful for students who:

Have a specific concern and would like to consult with someone about it. Would like on-the-spot consultation rather than ongoing counseling. Would like to consult with a CS staff member about what actual therapy looks like. Would like to meet with one of our CS identity-based specialists. Have a concern about a friend or family member and would like some ideas about what to do.

 

How does Let’s Talk work?

Let’s Talk will be offered via Zoom and/or in satellite locations across campus. As a drop-in service, there is no need to schedule an appointment and no paperwork to be completed. Students are seen individually on a first-come, first-served basis at the times listed below. There may be a wait in the Zoom waiting room if the Let’s Talk staff member is meeting with another student. Please wait and we will be with you as soon as we can. Let’s Talk appointments are brief (usually between 15-30 minutes) and are meant to be used on an as-needed basis.

Dec 11
Let’s Talk – Wednesdays 2PM-4PM (BCC/Zoom) 2:00 p.m.

Meet with Counseling Services Cecile Gadson, who specializes in working with Black and African American students, at the Black Cultural Center. Let’s Talk is a service...
Let’s Talk – Wednesdays 2PM-4PM (BCC/Zoom)
October 16–December 11
2:00–4:00 p.m.

Meet with Counseling Services Cecile Gadson, who specializes in working with Black and African American students, at the Black Cultural Center.

Let’s Talk is a service that provides easy access to free, informal, and confidential one-on-one consultation with a Counseling Services staff member. See our website for six additional Let’s Talk days/times offered throughout the week.

Let’s Talk is especially helpful for students who:

Have a specific concern and would like to consult with someone about it. Would like on-the-spot consultation rather than ongoing counseling. Would like to consult with a CS staff member about what actual therapy looks like. Would like to meet with one of our CS identity-based specialists. Have a concern about a friend or family member and would like some ideas about what to do.

 

How does Let’s Talk work?

Let’s Talk will be offered via Zoom and/or in satellite locations across campus. As a drop-in service, there is no need to schedule an appointment and no paperwork to be completed. Students are seen individually on a first-come, first-served basis at the times listed below. There may be a wait in the Zoom waiting room if the Let’s Talk staff member is meeting with another student. Please wait and we will be with you as soon as we can. Let’s Talk appointments are brief (usually between 15-30 minutes) and are meant to be used on an as-needed basis.

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).