Author Nicholas Nugent and moderator William Fowler, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Northeastern University.
Virtual
A former award-winning newspaper reporter and contributor of articles and book reviews to publications and organizations that include American History magazine, Politico, The Boston Globe, and the Bill of Rights Institute, Steve has also taught history at Suffolk University in Boston and at UMass-Boston. He also has developed and taught numerous writing workshops for high school and college students, as well as for adults who aspire to be writers. Steve holds a master’s degree in history from UMass-Boston. His master’s thesis, “From Italy to Boston’s North End: Italian Immigration and Settlement, 1890-1910,” has been downloaded more than 25,000 times by scholars and readers around the world. Steve is also a Massachusetts Historical Society Fellow and is a past recipient of the prestigious i migliori award, presented by the Pirandello Lyceum to Italian-Americans who have excelled in their fields of endeavor. Steve and his wife Kate, who live south of Boston, donate a portion of his book proceeds to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). His latest work is The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union (2024), a biography of U. S. Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts.
Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, infectious disease specialist and global health physician, who advises the W.H.O on emerging diseases and Crawford Kilian, science and health reporter, who has blogged about H5N1 avian flu and other potential hazards to global health since 2005.
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The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Leslie Reid, Chief of Investment Programs; Massachusetts Housing Investment Corp.; Kelly Viera, director of Investigations and Outreach, Housing Discrimination Testing Program, Suffolk University Law School; Daniel Weidknecht, director, Roxbury, and Leonard Egerton, owner, Frugal Bookstore. The Rev. Willie Bodrick II, J.D., Senior Pastor at Twelfth Baptist Church and President/CEO of The American City Coalition, TACC will serve as the afternoon’s moderator.
Roxbury Branch, Boston Public Library
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