This symposium of artists, activists, alumni, students & scholars, draws inspiration from UN resolution (43/1) calling for the "promotion & protection of the human rights & fundamental freedoms of Africans & of people of African descent against excessive use of force & other human rights violations by law enforcement officers."
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Professor Vaughn Booker has article published in Religions, Evangelicalism: New Directions in Scholarship. "Mothers of the Movement: Evangelicalism and Religious Experience in Black Women's Activism" refocuses the narrative of American Evangelicalism and politics around Black women's narratives of religious experience, expression, mourning, and activism.
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Please join the English and Creative Writing Department for Convergences: A Black Life and Letters Lecture Series on Sunday, March 14, 2021.
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Booker will be discussing Henry Louis Gates' new PBS documentary series, "The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song," which traces the 400-year-old story of the Black church in America.
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In November, Alex Blue, AAAS Thurgood Marshall Fellow, successfully defended his dissertation (virtually) at UC Santa Barbara and became a Doctor of Ethnomusicology. His dissertation is titled: A Matter of Death and Life: Necrographies of Hip-Hop in Contemporary Detroit.
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