A Lecture at CSI that you won't want to miss

Public Lecture

Salamishah Tillet

Associate Professor of English and Africana

Studies, University of Pennsylvania

“#FergusonGoddam: Nina Simone's

Prophetic Rage and Black Lives Matter”

Thursday, March 10, 2016, 2:30pm

Performing Arts Center

Screening Room, 1P-223

CC Clue credit

Salamishah Tillet is an activist and cultural critic.  She is the author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial

Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination (Duke Univ. Press, 2012) and the co-founder of “A Long Walk Home,” a non-profit organization using art in the fight to end violence against girls and women.

Event Sponsors:

Program in African and African Diaspora Studies

CUNY Women's Center Council

Bertha Harris Women's Center

Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences