Audre Lorde: A Burst of Light Symposium
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Center for Black Literature will partner with The DuBois Bunche Center for Public Policy, MEC’s English Department and the Center for Women’s Development to pay tribute to the legacy of the feminist poet and writer Audre Lorde on Saturday, March 22 from 6:30pm-8:30pm at Medgar Evers College, Founders Auditorium (1650 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY). Featuring Keynote Speaker Angela Davis.
The program will focus on promoting dialogue concerned with the intersectionality of race, gender, class, and sexual identity in Lorde’s works. Guest participants include activist and scholar Angela Davis; Steven Fullwood, assistant curator of the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; and other guests. During the program, there will also be a tribute to Esther Cooper Jackson for her leadership as an editor and publisher of Freedomways Journal. Tickets are available here.
