Illinois Global Institute

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Black History Month: Bitter Kola Tastes Sweet

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Center for African Studies
Location
Levis Faculty Center Room 208
Virtual
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Date
Feb 28, 2023   6:30 - 8:30 pm  
Speaker
Carmen P. Thompson and Michael Warr
Registration
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Contact
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E-Mail
tdavis5@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Center for African studies - Outreach Calendar

Join us on Tuesday, February 28, |6:30 - 8:30 pm (CST)  in Levis Faculty Center Room 208, 919 W. Illinois St. Urbana. Illinois for A Reading Room Event: Engaging textual conversations about what matters in Global African life and cultures. There will also be  Presentations of Global African Speeches/Literatures by members of the CAS and local communities. 

Speakers:

Carmen P. Thompson: historian, author of The Making of American Whiteness: The Formation of Race in Seventeenth-Century Virginia

Michael Warr: San Francisco poet, poetry editor of Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin

To attend on zoom, register here.


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