AJC CENTER SPEAKERS AND SERIES

SISTER CITIZENS: BLACK WOMEN IN US POLITICS AND MEDIA

During Fall 2023, the Anna Julia Cooper Center will host a virtual conversation series with Black women political professionals, elected officials, and media professionals. This series will examine Black women’s participation in American politics as voters, activists, candidates,  elected officials, and media makers. These conversations will consider intersections of race, gender, class, and ideology in shaping approaches to the political world and media environment.  

BLACK LIVES MATTER

During Spring 2021, the Anna Julia Cooper Center hosted a virtual conversation series highlighting the importance of Black Lives Matter in American public life, the organizer, ,writers, and thinkers who constructed the ongoing movement, and the broad range of responses evoked by this seemingly self-evident assertion.

DisASTER, RACE, and AMERICAN POLITICS

During Fall 2020, the Anna Julia Cooper Center hosted a virtual conversation series hosted by Professor Harris-Perry. Hurricanes, wildfires, flooding, and a global pandemic intersecting with racism, economic devastation, divisive politics, and individual despair made 2020 disastrous. The conversations in this series addressed these issues from multiple perspectives.