African-American community lecture series @ the Family Resource Center
Building on the success of the fall series, the Family Resource Center will be offering a Spring 2009 Community Course on African American Studies from 7-9PM on Wednesday evenings at the FRC (2405 Jefferson Avenue).
| Feb.4 | An Artist’s Journey on the Congo Coast of Panama – Prof.Arturo Lindsay, Spellman College |
| Feb.11 | Digging Through the Grooves: Afro-Feelings and Black Markets in Ghana, West Africa – Prof.Sionne Neely |
| Feb.18 | Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes – Byron Hurt (to be held in the Student COmmons theater @ VCU) |
| Feb.25 | Creating a Future Drawn from our Past: An Artist’s Perspective – Prayer Beads Project – Prof.Sonya Clark, VCU |
| Mar.4 | History of Liberia and its Connection to Richmond – Sister Mamusa, Prof. Sonia Banks, and LaDonne Lankster |
| Mar.11 | Strange Fruit: Lynching and Other Racial Violence in the U.S. since Reconstruction – Prof.Tameka Bradley Hobbs |
| Mar.18 | Slavery and the Making of American Freedom |
| Mar.25 | Racial Trauma and its Intergenerational Transmission: The Tulsa Race War of 1921 – Prof.Shawn Utsey |
Sponsored by the VCU Department of African American Studies, Richmond Slave Trail Commission, Family Resource Center, Elegba Folklore Society, and Afrikaner Student Organization.
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