Avery Research Center to Host Black Power Conference

The College of Charleston’s Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture will host a public history symposium and community event entitled “The Fire Every Time: Reframing Black Power across the Twentieth Century and Beyond” on September 21 and 22, 2012.  

The conference considers such topics as policing, incarceration, higher education, Black arts and cultural institutions, politics and policy, the military, self-defense, grass-roots organizing, images and iconography, interracial alliances and “Rainbow” coalitions, religion, transnationalism and global perspectives, and filmmaking.

Over fifty of the country’s top scholars on African-American history and culture alongside local activists and community members will participate in this conference.  Plenary speakers include: Cleveland Sellers, Herman Blake, Osei Chandler, James Campbell, Millicent Brown, Peniel Joseph, Donna Murch, Yohuru Williams, and Hasan Jeffries.

This event is open to the public.

Registration is required to attend.

To find out more about the symposium, go to http://avery.cofc.edu/programs/black-p