Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience
THE 41ST ANNUAL MARION THOMPSON WRIGHT LECTURE
One Begins
AGAIN
Date: Saturday, February 20, 2021
Time: 9:30 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. EST
Organizing & the Historical Imagination
“And when the dream was slaughtered…not everything was lost.
Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.” – James Baldwin, Just Above My Head, 1979
SPEAKERS:
- Alicia Garza, Principal at Black Futures Lab, author of The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, and co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter.
- Bill Fletcher Jr., Author of “They’re Bankrupting Us!”: And Twenty Other Myths About Unions; labor organizer; syndicated columnist; senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; and editorial board member of BlackCommentator.com.
- Cara Page, Black Queer Feminist cultural/memory worker, curator, and organizer focusing on holding the Medical Industrial Complex accountable.
- Barbara Ransby, John D. MacArthur Chair, and Distinguished Professor, in the Departments of African American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).
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