Dr. John Edward Hasse, long-time music curator at the Smithsonian and Duke Ellington’s biographer, plays stirring video clips of these songs that inspired, motivated, and advocated for what Martin Luther King called for in his “I have a dream” speech: that we all be judged not by the color of our skin, “but by the content of our character.” He will also play works by W.C. Handy and Duke Ellington that helped lay the musical foundation for the Civil Rights movement.
Boston Public Library - Rabb Lecture Hall
Hugo Salcedo
Modern Theatre
Bill Rauch
Boston College - Gasson 100
Yiyun Li
Boston College - Gasson 100
Daniel Alarcón
Boston College - Gasson 100
Joy Harjo
Boston College - Gasson 100
Jeneé Osterheldt is a culture columnist who covers identity and social justice through the lens of culture and the arts. She centers Black lives and the lives of people of color. Sometimes this means writing about Beyoncé and Black womanhood or unpacking the importance of public art and representation. Sometimes this means taking systemic racism, sexism, and oppression to task. It always means Black lives matter. She joined the Globe in 2018. A native of Alexandria, Virginia and a graduate of Norfolk State University, Osterheldt was a 2017 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, where her studies focused on the intersection of art and justice. She previously worked as a Kansas City Star culture columnist.
Museum of Science
Stephen Puleo, Author and Historian
Suffolk University Law School
Prof. Jaimie D. Crumley, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Division and Ethnic Studies Division, University of Utah
Suffolk University Law School
Prof. David Hall, Bartlett Professor of New England Church History Emeritus, Harvard Divinity School
Suffolk University Law School
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