Anna Julia Cooper Center 

ANNUAL LECTURE

 

The annual lecture of the Anna Julia Cooper Lecture is presented by a distinguished scholar, artist or activist working at the intersections of gender, race, and place. The lecture is free and open to the public.

AJC Lecturers Professor Karla Holloway and Professor Monique Morris embrace on the porch of AJC Center at the post-lecture dinner in 2017.

AJC Lecturers Professor Karla Holloway and Professor Monique Morris embrace on the porch of AJC Center at the post-lecture dinner in 2017.

Past Anna Julia Cooper Lectures

2013, Julianne Malveaux: “Slipping through the Cracks: The Status of Black Females

2014, Joan Morgan: “Hip Hop at 40”

2015, Jennifer Eberhardt: “Protecting and Policing Black Lives in the 21st Century”

2016 , Barbara Ransby: “From Black Power to Black LIves Matter”

2017,  Monique Morris: “Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools”

2018,  Brittney Cooper: "Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women”