Tuesday, March 14, 2017 Time: 6pm Location: GLC Auditorium Speaker: Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson [read bio], Mott Professor of Africana Women’s Studies Title: We Wear the Mask(s): Centering Black Women and Girls in Social Justice Work We are familiar with names like Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Rosa Parks and to a lesser extent Anna Julia Cooper and Pauli Murray as advocates for justice. However, the breadth and depth of Black women and girls’ involvement in social justice movements is under appreciated. Using as inspiration the poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask”, and C. Nicole …
