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| 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM | When White America Gets Pneumonia: COVID-19 and Structural Racism
In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, join us for a presentation by Dr. Linda Rae Murray, an activist and national leader in community health and social justice in healthcare.
Her talk, "When White America Gets Pneumonia: COVID19 and Structural Racism," will examine the historical experience of American medicine with the concept of race, demonstrating how structural racism has resulted in significant gaps in mortality based on race and ethnicity. She will further examine the role structural racism has played in the differential impact of COVID-19 on people of color.
Dr. Murray will be introduced by Provost Peter Nwosu and Dean of the School of Health Sciences, Human Services, and Nursing Elgloria Harrison.
Sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Department of Africana Studies.
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Meeting ID: 830 788 0076
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Meeting ID: 830 788 0076
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| 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | The Meridian Journalism Speaker Series - Jessica Leigh Hester
Jessica Leigh Hester is a Senior Editor and Writer at Atlas Obscura. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, NPR, Mother Jones, and previously edited CityLab by The Atlantic.
Jessica will discuss:
- Pitches that editors want to see
- Writing full-length creative nonfiction
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| 6:00 PM | The 24th Annual Student-Faculty Read-In Celebrating Black Women in Prose, Poetry, and Song
The 24th Annual Student-Faculty Read-In Celebrating Black Women in Prose, Poetry, and Song
In honor of Black History Month and Women’s History Month, the Lehman College Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Department of Africana Studies present the 24th Annual Student-Faculty Read-In, with guest writer Ama Codjoe. Codjoe is the author of Blood of the Air (Northwestern Press, 2020), which won the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her forthcoming book, Bluest Nude, will be published by Milkweed Editions in 2022.
Join by Zoom
Meeting ID: 861 4152 4943
Passcode: 283451
Join by telephone at +1 929 205 6099 (New York)
Meeting ID: 861 4152 4943
Passcode: 283451
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| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Yours for Justice: The Continued Relevance Of Ida B. Wells' Diagnosis Of Domestic Racial Terror
Yours for Justice: The Continued Relevance of Ida B. Wells' Diagnosis of Domestic Racial Terror
Professor Jane Anna Gordon of the University of Connecticut Department Of Political Science
Everyone who has heard of Ida B. Wells is familiar with her as an anti-lynching crusader. What was crucial about her work was that it framed the rise of lynching in the early 20th century as entirely a function of hostility to the end of slavery and the growth of the project of black freedom. Professor Jane Anna Gordon will speak about Wells’ work and how her framing of anti-black violence as domestic terror forces us to consider why such actions are, to this day, not considered and treated as treasonous.
Presented by The Department of Africana Studies & The Women’s And Gender Studies Program
For more information, contact Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, Chair at bertrade@lehman.cuny.edu
ZOOM MEETING ID: 854 9938 8356 ZOOM MEETING PASSCODE: 823053 | |
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| 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | The Meridian Journalism Speaker Series - Angely Mercado
Angely Mercado is freelance writer, editor, proofreader, and fact-checker. She has contributed to The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, Salon, The Nation, Vice, and more.
Angely will discuss:
- Freelance writing
- Life as a journalist
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| 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM | Lehman Gets the Vax
Lehman College presents a live discussion and Q&A about the COVID-19 vaccine moderated by Sandra Garcia, reporter with the New York Times and a Lehman College alumna featuring:
· Sandra Lindsay, an ICU nurse, Lehman College nursing graduate and the first person in the U.S. to take the vaccine;
· Lehman College President Dr. Daniel Lemons;
· Dr. C. Alicia Georges, professor and chair of the Nursing Department, School of Health Sciences, Human Services. and Nursing;
· Dr. Maria-Isabel Roldós-Prosser, associate professor, School of Health Sciences, Human Services, and Nursing and director of the CUNY Institute of Health Equity (CIHE). | |
| 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | The Meridian Journalism Speaker Series - Ludwig Hurtado
Ludwig Hurtado is an Associate Producer at NBC. He has also written for Vice, The Nation, Pitchfork, Paper, and contributed to multiple feature-length documentaries.
Ludwig will discuss:
- Finding unique sources
- Breaking into the industry
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| 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM | Black Poetry & Performance: Poems as Songs that ‘Send’ Us: Considering Selections from ‘Black Language & Music’ in Kevin Young’s African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song
Poet Gwendolyn Brooks, in her 1967 occasional poem “The Chicago Picasso,” observed that: “Art hurts. Art urges voyages-/ and it is easier to stay at home, / the nice beer ready.” This notion invites the consideration of a lyric: Darling, you send me. Written in 1955 by the late singer Sam Cooke and released in 1957, “You Send Me” is timeless in theme and durability. How might a poem ‘send’ us? Leafing through Kevin Young’s repertoire of poets and poems, we’ll situate ‘sending’ as an effect responsive to desire and surrender. Featuring poets Rodney Terich Leonard, Lise Esdaile, Trapeta B. Mayson, and Monnette Sudler.
The event is one of a series of eclectic programs organized by One Book One Bronx, in collaboration with the Leonard Lief Library at Lehman College, as part of the Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters initiative. Lift Every Voice seeks to engage participants in a multifaceted exploration of African American poetry. It is sponsored by the Library of America and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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