Marywood University’s Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center is holding “The Black Voices Speaker Series” on several dates in March and April. The talks, which are virtual, are free and open to the public. Registration can be made at marywood.edu/blackvoices.
In an effort to amplify the work and contributions of Blacks across disciplines, the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center (TRHT) is excited to bring the Black Voices Speaker Series to Marywood University. TRHT will host scholars on various topics of interest from across the African diaspora. Each presenter will give a talk that will be followed by a Q &A session.
- Alan Pelaez Lopez will present, “Arts as Civil Disobedience: Blackness, Migration, and Criminality,” on Thursday, March 18, 2021, at 5:30 p.m.
- Shaun Gabbidon will present, “Shopping While Black: Consumer Racial Profiling in America,” on Thursday, April 1, 2021, at 5:30 p.m.
- Donna Patterson will present, “Gender, Healing, and Africa,” on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, at 5:30 p.m.
- Maha Marouan will present, “Women and Africana Religions in Cuba,” on Thursday, April 29, 2021, at 5:30 p.m.
Marywood University’s TRHT Campus Center is one among only thirteen institutions that were selected through a competitive process as sites for the second cohort of TRHT Campus Centers. The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in partnership with W.K. Kellogg Foundation works with higher education institutions across the country to develop self-sustaining, community-integrated TRHT Campus Centers. Organized around the five pillars of the TRHT framework—narrative change, racial healing and relationship building, separation, law, and economy—the Centers seek to prepare the next generation of leaders to confront racism and to dismantle the belief in a hierarchy of human value.
To register for “The Black Voices Speaker Series,” please visit marywood.edu/blackvoices. For additional information about Marywood University’s TRHT Campus Center, please visit sites.google.com/maryu.marywood.edu/trht/home.