In 1968, America was shaken by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the urban uprisings that followed. An anti-war movement was in full swing, France teetered on the brink of revolution, and the Mexico City Summer Olympics was punctuated by the defiant fists of Black Power. That same year, publication of the Black Fire Anthology announced a Black cultural revolution. Standing at the intersection of these revolutionary currents and an emerging feminist movement, award-winning poet, scholar and social activist Sonia Sanchez speaks to their meaning for post-Katrina America.
This presentation is also part of the conference "Rupture, Repression and Uprising: Raced and Gendered Violence Along the Color Line" organized by the African American Studies and Research Program.

Hosted by: African-American Studies and Research Program

In conjunction with: Bruce D. Nesbitt: African American Cultural Program, Center for African Studies, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, Department of History, Gender and Women's Studies Program, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Robert J. and Katherin Carr Visiting Author Series