An Evening of Black Literary Excellence: Washington, DuBois, Woodson and Brown

Reflections and Directions on Surviving Contemporary America

When: Wednesday August 6th
Where: Zoom only

Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Carter G. Woodson, Claude Brown have all left an indelible mark on Black thought, response and action. To know them is to understand tenacity, determination and vision in the ongoing efforts of Black survival in America. Come, learn and be introduced to these milestone makers. This is one event in a series giving exposure to details lost or obscured in American life.

About the Speaker:
Aybike Ahmedi is an Uzbek-Turkish-American writer currently engaged in an oral history documentary on the Central Asian diaspora. An instructor at Fairleigh Dickinson University and The City College of New York (CCNY), Ahmedi also works as an archival assistant to Professor William Gibbons processing the materials of John Henrik Clarke, a preeminent Black educator and thinker.

Ahmedi’s writings have been published various magazines and journals including Whitman on Walls Anthology Vol. 2, and Cephalopress Anthology: Borders and Belonging. She is the managing editor of Guernica Magazine.

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