Saturday, June 26, 2:30 - 3:00 pm CT
Savala Nolan is a writer, speaker, and lawyer. She regularly speaks on social justice issues, including implicit bias, structural racism, understanding Whiteness, and the importance of social justice work for all lawyers. She is the Executive Director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, where she leads lectures and workshops for law students, scholars, and activists studying the intersections of race, gender, and law. Nolan's Summer 2021 release, Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body, present a clear and nuanced understanding of our society’s most intractable points of tension.
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Friday, June 25, 12:15 - 12:45 pm CT
As an 18-year-old Morehouse College student, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. on two buses in May of 1961. Seven black and six white riders, including the late U.S. Representative John Lewis, set out to discover whether America would abide by a Supreme Court decision that ruled segregation unconstitutional in bus depots, waiting areas, restaurants, and restrooms nationwide. Buses Are a Comin’: Memoir of a Freedom Rider, available April 2021, provides a front-row view of the struggle to belong in America. The book challenges today's youth from the perspective of a teenager in a previous era.
Friday, June 25, 4:30 - 5:00 pm CT
Classical ballet dancer Judy Tyrus and pianist, playwright, and composer Paul Novosel are the authors of Dance Theatre of Harlem: A History, A Celebration, A Movement. The definitive history of the first African-American classical ballet company. With hundreds of sensational photographs, first-hand accounts, archival images, and a well-researched narrative, this stunning visual book traces the Company from its origins in a Harlem basement at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in 1969 to its activism and innovations in virtual performances throughout 2020.
Thursday, June 24, 3:30 - 4:00 pm CT
Dr. Leana Wen is an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University. She served as Baltimore's Health Commissioner where she led the nation’s oldest operating health department in the U.S., fight the opioid epidemic; treat violence and racism as public health issues; and improve maternal and child health. Dr. Wen’s memoir, Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Health, available Summer 2021 helps to make the invisible hand of public health, visible.