When: February 8 / 17:30
Where: Conference Room/ ground floor
Speaker: Dr. Derrais Carter
"Someday We'll All Be Free" connects Black History to Music and Protest. Beginning with the formation of Negro History Week (now Black History Month), this lecture will use the music of Donny Hathaway, Aretha Franklin, and Stevie Wonder to explain the pivotal role that black music plays in creating community, critiquing society, and promoting freedom.
Dr. Derrais (D.A.) Carter is an assistant professor of Black Studies.
His research interests include theories of representation, contemporary
black popular culture, masculinity studies, and popular music. He is
co-editor of The Iconic Obama, 2007-2009: Essays on Media
Representations of the Candidate and New President (2012). He is
currently writing a book about race and obscenity in 1919 tentatively
titled Mixed Ambitions: The Moens Scandal & Racial Uplift in the
Nation's Capital.
Admission free
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